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>>> Adams Douglas   | Always tell the truth, | You can die like the rest,
>>> adamsd@         | then you make it the   | or be one of the best.
>>> crash.cts.com   | other bloke's problem! | - Cyndi n'ha June, 1992
>>> Chula Vista, CA | - Sean Connery, 1971   |

>>The "n'ha" usage comes from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series
>>of science fiction novels.  I don't know whether she made it up or
>>got it from some known language.  She has a set of female characters
>>called Renunciates, or Free Amazons, who have made themselves
>>independent of the strictures normally imposed on women of Darkover,
>>and who change their names to show matrilineal descent.

>Do you know for a fact that "Cyndi n'ha June" is influenced by Bradley?

No, not for a fact.  It seemed likely to me, since I have heard
of women adopting this usage (not often, to be sure) based on
Bradley, and no one has yet come up with another origin for "n'ha."

Claudia