# Mamelta *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 31 Mar 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *31 Mar 1997, 09:38* Scouting around to see if Mamelta's name could possibly be Vironese, I came up with two weak candidates: mammole: edible fruit of Opuntia Tuna (sounds just right for a casserole--actually it's a flat-leafed cactus). mamaliga: cornmeal mush; the national dish of Romania. The second could be considered a fit through pronunciation elision---but Romania uses the Western alphabet, so the spelling is all off. So, unless there's a misprint throughout, which seems unlikely, it looks as though her name comes from elsewhere, and that the sleeping bio name of "Olive" is a red herring. -alga- Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---