Re: 'dyeus' chronology

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

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> On Ma-to-ro and Ma-ta-u-ro: Do you understand why some people on one side of
> the river call it duero and the same river on the other side is called douro?


> ***R Douro /dowru/ vs. Duero /dwero/ are perfectly explainable, given that
> Spanish and Portuguese are known. What you say about people on one side calling
> it one thing and the other something else is wrong. It's called Duero in most of
> Spain and Douro in most of Portugal but along the thinly populated border, I
> noticed that the local versions of Spanish (actually Leonese) and Portuguese
> (in some places Leonese, other places fala, etc.) sounded pretty much alike. I
> noticed that border Portuguese had Spanish vowels --at least in the town of
> Elvas and tended denasalize final nasals.
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> As I remember, Dr. Brighenti pointed out that your argument completely lacked
> credibility. So you might want to stop kicking that dead horse and eat it.
> BTW: What is your doctorate in?

Rick,
People on both banks of the river call the river differently: one side calls it duero and the other calls it douro. You could not differentiate it does not mean much. It is different. It ain't a dead horse for people who understand the argument.
Shivraj