Linux Ethnic

alta, v:        To change; make or become different; modify.
ansa, v:        A spoken or written reply, as to a question.
baa, n:         A place people meet to have a few drinks.
Baaston, n:     The capital of Massachusetts.
baaba, n:       One whose business is to cut or trim hair or beards.
beea, n:        An alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops, often
                        found in baas.
caaa, n:        An automobile.
centa, n:       A point around which something revolves; axis.  (Or
                        someone involved with the Knicks.)
chouda, n:      A thick seafood soup, often in a milk base.
dada, n:        Information, esp. information organized for analysis or
                        computation.
                -- Massachewsetts Unabridged Dictionary

America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until
people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its
name to "America".
                -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
                -- Allen Ginsberg

American by birth; Texan by the grace of God.

Americans are people who insist on living in the present, tense.

Americans' greatest fear is that America will turn out to have been a
phenomenon, not a civilization.
                -- Shirley Hazzard, "Transit of Venus"

An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.
                -- A Chinese child

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
                -- A.P. Herbert

Anything anybody can say about America is true.
                -- Emmett Grogan

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh
autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
                -- P.J. O'Rourke