st: The Italian Stata?

[Enzo Coviello <enzo.coviello@alice.it>]

> It turns out stata is Italian for state, which I did not know at the time, but
> which has not gotten in our way much.
For the Stata word story I would reassure that stata is not Italian 
for English state.
"Stata" has not a meaning in my language and its sound (a bit 
different from English) is somewhat evocative of some undetermined 
statistics stuff. So no problem of misunderstanding when we talk in 
Italian about Stata.

Ciao

Enzo





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