Miata Mailing List: July 1993, Message #42
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   From: djo@gremlin.newport.sgi.com (Dennis Ordiway)
Subject: Re: magazine
   Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 18:13:27 -0400


> The magazine claims "...the word 'miata' is a German expression for 'high
> reward'."  I know German pretty well, and I never heard of it, which
> doesn't really prove anything.  My Cassell's dictionary never heard of
> either.  The only thing in the dictionary that starts with "mia" is
> "miauen," to mew or caterwaul.  To me, miata sounds maybe Italian, any
> Italian experts out there?  Or anybody that knows "miata" in any
> Could be totally made up.

Road and Track, back when the car was introduced in 1990, refferred to
Miata as old german, or old germanic, or some other dead form of the
german language.

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Dennis Ordiway                 Systems Engineer     Silicon Graphics
18201 Von Karman, Irvine, CA   djo@sgi.com          Vmail: 8537

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