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Re: Chocolate?

From:Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>
Date:Friday, February 8, 2002, 21:53
Roger Mills wrote:

> Teoh wrote: > >What do you have for the Indonesian version? In Malay it is "coklat", the > >Malay-fication of the English. Not sure if the Indonesian is the same--it > >could well be. > > Sama-sama. (It's the same); pre-1972 spelled tjoklat. (It also means > 'brown') Apparently also from Engl. My old Dutch dict. gives _chocolade_ > [Sokolad@]
You state it correctly: "old Dutch". Nowadays, we usually just say "chocola" and no longer "chocolade", which sounds a bit outdated. Maarten