tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 04 02:44:58 1997
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Re: batleth
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, ghunchu'wI' ghItlh:
> The Star Trek Encyclopedia and the Interactive Technical Manual both spell
> it "bat'telh". TKW page 79 uses this spelling twice as well, but seems to
> have it misspelled as "bat'leth" once.
>
> Note that the explanation of this entry in TKW tends to confirm the
> {batlh 'etlh -> betleH} derivation:
>
> "The bat'telh..., sometimes called the "sword of honor," is probably the
> most Klingon of weapons."
Then which of these is the correct spelling in romanized Klingon?
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