At 9:18 PM -0500 3/1/00, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>The subject of this post is the evolution of the word "bursar". While it's
>kind of an odd word that you don't hear much any more, it's also a very old
>word, perhaps 3000-3500 years old now. In English, it means "treasurer",
>although it literally means "bag-man", where the bag is a bag of money.

So if I get reimbursed, then it means that someone refilled my bag?
;-}

BL