From: Tony Finch (dot@dotat.at)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 11:16:05 PDT
Antoun Nabhan <antoun@arrayex.com> wrote:
>
>[...] old Cantabrigians (don't ask me why they call themselves that;
>a little Harvard pomposity seems to have worn off on the whole town)
>holding picket signs opposing "the yuppies taking over the [...]
They inherited it from the original Cambridge which got it from
mediaeval academics and their obsession with Latin. For example,
Gonville and Caius College is named after its founders, the second of
whom latinised his name from Keys, which explains the pronunciation of
the college's name.
Tony.
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