RE: st: RE: RE: Stata 9 Mata question

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

And, alledgedly, "Enco" changed its name to "Exxon" in part because "Enco" 
means "stalled car" in Japanese.

--Nick

At 11:16 AM 4/6/2005 -0500, you wrote:

> That was the Nova, or "no va", which in Spanish, means "doesn't go".
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> At 11:11 AM 4/6/2005, you wrote:
> >Which is an argument for pronouncing it Mayta.
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> I don't remember the exact details, but I think Ford or one of the other
> car companies once introduced a car whose name meant "Doesn't run" in
> Spanish.  It didn't sell too well overseas. :)
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