To: Air Force Born
that would be guerrita. guerrilla is "one who wars". Funny thing about the word guerra. It derives deeper back in spanish history to gothic/germanic rule from warra (war) but spanish routinely replaced W sounds which were somewhat foreign (theirs sounds more like a b) with GW/GU.
(end of historical linguistics post)
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04/10/2003 8:48:11 AM PDT by
retrokitten
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