Re: Educating Language Gifted Students Questions

"Paul Burke" <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> izzy wrote:
>
> > Would you derive Vatican from Hebrew Va3aD = committee + KohaNim =
> > priests ? ... rather than from Mt. Vatican? If not, from whence Mt.
> > Vatican?
>
>
> Rather good at prediction, those old Romans, calling a hill and a swamp
> the Committee of Priests, knowing it would become, a thousand years
> later, the centre of a religion that didn't yet exist.
>
> Perhaps "Vatican" is Etruscan for "Sorry, I don't speak Hebrew".

Vat I can vouch for.


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