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Re: other Possible Puns

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: other Possible Puns
• Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:36:10 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Quvar:
> >And did I tell you that the arabic word for {wa'} is "wahid"? That's just a
> >coincidence too I guess :-)

QeS lagh:
>I'm learning Classic Maya for an archaeology course I'm doing at university.
>The word for "two" in Classic Maya is <cha'>. No kidding, identical
>pronunciation, glottal stop and everything.

Once you start focusing on single words, you'll start seeing them 
everywhere.  For instance, in Middle (Classical) Egyptian, the word for 
"one" is <w'>, "glottal stop and everything" too, conventionally pronounced 
/wa'/.  (Egyptians didn't record the vowels in their script so the actual 
pronunciation is something of an educated guess.)



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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