Re: USAGE: XH etc. (was: RE: RV: Old English)

In a message dated 3/31/2000 12:49:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,
raccoon@ELKNET.NET writes:

<< What/who are Enver Xhosa and Imri Nagy? And is <Hausa> related to <Xhosa>
 (that's the word I would think of if I heard someone say /h@Us@/.) >>
    Enver Hoxha-- long-time ( perhaps the only?) communist ruler of  Albania.
    Imre Nagy-- premier of Hungary at the time of the anti-Soviet uprising
1956.  He appealed to the West for help, but of course got none. (France and
the Brits were involved in some silliness in Suez, we were doing an election)