> He suggests that the "-tscheck" part of "Sautscheck" might be > derived from the German word for Czech. He was looking at the word from > a purely etymological point of view.
Please excuse my rude wording, but that is pure non-sense (in the very sense of the word) because there are no bridges from -tscheck to Tscheche (Czech) in German, neither phonetically nor etymologically, since -ck- is a mute while the 2nd -ch- in Tscheche is a fricative (there is no corresponding sound in English, I'd describe it as something between -ch- in loch and -y- in yes). The two phonemes sound entirely different. Besides, the modifying use of the prefix sau- is fairly confined to the estates of Bavaria, btw not always pejorative (saugut, saugeil). Most other parts of German speaking countries use Arsch- or Scheisz- instead (arschkalt, Scheiszwetter, both pretty rude). -- Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
