Re: Away for a while

From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>

> I'm afraid that I'll be going no-mail for the next few weeks as
> my family and I will be visiting Northern France in part to see
> the tiny town of Ver-sur-mer in Normandy whence my remote ancestors
> left around a thousand years ago.  ("Ver" is cognate to "Wier",
> and all the Wiers of Scotland are said to have left from there after
> the Conquest and travelled to Scotland via England.) If anyone wants
> to email me, I just might have access to some internet rightpondianlike,
> but I'll be busy.  When I get back, I'd like to post some musings I've
> entertained about an animacy hierarchy and C'ali wordorder.
Why be afraid? You'll like France... ;)

My dad was there earlier this year. Don't know if he ever heard of
Ver-sur-mer though. And his last name is Wier, obviously. (The Wiers/Weirs,
or Mac Mhaoirs rather, progressed from Ireland to Scotland to England to
France, or to Texas for some of us.) Anyway, bon voyage!