From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars
Date: 29 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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Cluster User wrote:

> >We should not worry too much. At the end, even the Scythians were thought to
> >be Turkic in the 19-th century, so - be patient and probably in the due time
> >the scholars will start to study the old Bulgars' question more seriously and
> >without the constant repetition of the Turkic mantra.
> 
> what I object to is  calling the prevailing view a "mantra". it is not
> made up of whole cloth.

That would be a mantle.
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Peter T. Daniels					grammatim@worldnet.att.net