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re: pun?

• From: "Neal Schermerhorn" <[email protected]>
• Subject: re: pun?
• Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:55:14 -0500
• References: <[email protected]>

ghItlh ghunchu'wI'

> And the word "mutt" refers to a *stupid* dog, which quite often is of a
> specific and known breed.  Sheepdogs are the archetypical mutts.  (I think
> it originally meant anyone or anything stupid, but the association with
> dogs is now pretty much universal.)

Mutt is translated in my unabridged as "a dog, esp. a mongrel". A mongrel is
a dog of mixed breed. Certainly one can see the parallel.

Qermaq

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