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Old Fri Nov 13, 2009, 11:36am
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Originally Posted by greymule View Post
Sierra means mountains. Just as Sahara means desert, so Sierra Mountains and Sahara Desert are redundant. I didn't know that Nevada meant snowy. I assumed it was the name of an Indian tribe.

OK, what's odd about the song title Down in the Boondocks?
Did you ever think that maybe some english speaking people took it over and added some words to it to make it more clear to their fellow English speaking people?

Times were much simpler before PC ...
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