--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> i would sooner buy a british colonial connection direct from hindi
to
> these certain few west indies
> but it is still a marvel how it got there
well it turns out that a single individual
sir wm stapleton d 1686
was simultaneously governor of montserrat st kitts nevis & the virgin
islands
or specifically all the ghaut ghut gut islands at once & no others
& he left many manuscripts including grants & leases of lands
& made the earliest known map of montserrat
which is the only island where the purest hindi form is found
& all these documents collectively may well prove to be the smoking
gun i have been seeking for identifying a single source
no idea yet whether stapleton had previously been to india
nor how else he may have picked up on this ghaut word
nor why it changed to ghut when it reached st kitts & nevis
nor why it changed again to gut in the virgins
except that that sequence does appear to also be the sequence of
settlement & thus of land naming too
so even if not yet qed
still a spectacular eruption of philological try pointing
with thanx to all for the leads & for being here
m