Re: Another Okrand Joke?

["Patrick Masterson" <es991111471@hotmail.com>]

> >Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:00:19 -0500
> >From: TPO <cheesbro@rpa.net>
> >
> >>... (as had chang'eng, btw)
> >
> >I haven't heard this one yet.
>
>Someone just posted asking about it.  {chang'eng}="pair"; the famous
>Siamese Twins were Chang and Eng.
>
> >> He'd actually been considering using {nIq} instead, ...
>
>The name of the character in the play is Nick Bottom.
>
>~mark

What was the pun in "bottom?" What is the word again, "bIS'ub"?

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