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Stone Arabia
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David G Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:49:42 -0400
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Stone Arabia is a piece of wordplay in German. Since the land was full of turnip-sized stones it was jokingly referred to as "stein rube" [u-umlaut] also expressed as "stein ruebe."

Given that distinctly German pronunciation of the u-umlaut just imagine how a frustrated English-speaker would render the curious sound and you'll have "Stone Arabia"

D Anderson


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