Nick: > Nyaaah! Nyaaah! As we used to say when we were six.
In 1968, my then-girlfriend (long since become a Mad Bomber at Los Alamos--her graduate degree was in astrophysics) provided what is has just now become fresh evidence of something-or-other relevant to this thread: having learned that expression only from books (no, she wasn't any kind of funny furriner; she was a good Irish-descended girl from Maryland, who had gone to Mt. Holyoke before graduate school at Columbia) she pronounced that as "nie-ah, nie-ah". ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
