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Thread #116829   Message #2699050
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
12-Aug-09 - 09:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: -bert
Subject: RE: BS: -bert
This is incredible. I never thought I'd get a Q.

My husband recalled that there is a station on the Paris metro named Maubert Mutualite. Presumably there was a notable person named Maubert at one time.

He also found a reference in Oxford's French Studies to '...Lettres Iroquoises attributed to Maubert de Gouvest.' So now we have two M's, Mobert and Maubert.

Zambert. I'm sorry to say, remains dubious, for Zambert's web page says 'PubliƩ par franck Isambert.' So is he an I or a Z?

Also, if we wish to be purists, we are missing a B, because Bobert is not a genuine name.