[KS] the meaning of Arirang

[Michael Rank]

Following Kuiwon's posting on the origin/meaning of Arirang https://kuiwon.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/what-does-arirang-mean-the-theories-on-the-etymology-of-arirang/, Prof Victor Mair of the U of Pennsylvania has written a further erudite posting on this topic, with plenty of equally erudite readers' comments
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=19181i

Michael Rank