George Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> In a recording of an early show he said the immortal >> words 'Kimo Sabe'. The director asked him what it meant and thinking >> quickly, Jay replied 'trusty scout'. 'Great,' said the >> director, 'we'll keep that in'. ... > >Cute story, but apparently untrue. No confirmation that I could find >on the web. But there's this in the Wikipedia entry for "Tonto": > >"The phrase kemo sabe, however, was coined ... by James Jewell, >co-creator and director of the radio series; according to Jewell, his >father-in-law ran a camp named Ke-Moh-Sah-Bee in Michigan."
That's no help. It simply raises the question of what "Ke-Moh-Sah-Bee" means (and makes one wonder why the camp was named that). Perhaps buffalo (bison, more likely) used to live in its location? Adrian PS Is the story that "kangaroo" means "I don't know" wrong too, then? "Canada" was supposed to mean something like "a collection of huts" (in Iroquois?), I understand. I rather like that. Adrian Stott 07956-299966
