Glancing Excursions

[Dave Monroe]

2009/7/6 János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>:

> I think Wikipedia is wrong about the possible Russian etymology of
> Shasta. The pronunciation of chistyi ('clean', a masculine adjective)
> doesn't really resemble Shasta. Ukrainian shchasta (meaning
> "happiness", schast'ye in Russian) is much closer.

Somebody remember this!  Thanks!  TRYING to get back to Lot 49, but
between work and the pain ...