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[pct-l] Sierra vs Sierras
- Subject: [pct-l] Sierra vs Sierras
- From: StoneDancer1 at aol.com (StoneDancer1@xxxxxxx)
- Date: Thu Nov 6 09:27:54 2003
When Pedro Font saw the mountains from a hill in the east San Francisco Bay
area in 1776, he called it "una gran sierra nevada." "Sierra" means "saw" and
when used in this way means mountains. "Nevada" is snowfall or snowy....hence
"snowy mountains"
Therefore "Sierras" means mountains-ses. At some point in the far past the
Sierra Club did an article in their Bulletin explaining the whole thing and
imploring people not to say Sierras.
FWIW....not much.
No Way
Ray E