In article <reWjc.39896$YP5.3007155@attbi_s02>, notbob
> wrote:

> On 2004-04-28, Dan Abel > wrote:
>
>
> > the guy leading it (some big cheese in the dorms) denied that the
> > buildings were named after wines. He said they were named after grapes!
>
> ????
>
> Would you have us believe varientals are not grapes? While I realize wine
> names are seriously abused, and wines named after varietal grapes can
> contain other grapes varieties, that does not mean 'varietal' is not
> synonymous with grape variety.


That's the point, they are synonymous. I don't know if the guy was joking
(likely) or if he was making some kind of tricky claim. Obviously they
were name after the wines, not after the grapes the wines were made out
of.

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Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
AIS