Re: The last enemy

In a message dated 7/26/2007 4:46:13 PM Central Daylight Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:


> (Incidentally, and I may have missed an earlier discussion of this, does
> anyone happen to know why it's Viki- instead of Uiki-?
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>
Esperanto typically uses <v> when English has <w>, especially initially.
Initial "ux" in Esperanto is extremely rare.  J. C. Wells's "Esperanto
Dictionary" in the Teach Yourself series has only two such words:  uxa (wah!, a baby's
cry) and uxatto (a watt).

stevo
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