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Re: pu'jIn

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: David Trimboli <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: pu'jIn
• Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:03:00 -0500
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Steven Boozer wrote:
> Fiat Knox:
>> It's another Okrand pun, and one I'd be familiar with as a Brit. 
>> Pugin (and Charles Barry) built the Houses of Parliament.
> Oh, that's nice.  However, taD reported that at the 2007 qep'a Okrand
> said "{pu'jIn} is a pun/joke, but it was a personal reference
> (presumably similar to {jIl} or {pe'vIl}), so it wouldn't be
> something we'd get" (taD, 8/02/07).  I wonder if that was what he
> meant?

He probably knows a cartographer or architect or whatever named Pugin.

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