Re: Y not? (was: Of Haa/hhet & other matters)

Oh, those are great. And all this time I've just been using "be grande" (b)
and "be chica" (v)! :)
I also learned "be" and "uve" originally.
Krista
>===== Original Message From Constructed Languages List
<CONLANG@...> =====
>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Ray Brown <ray.brown@F...> wrote:
>
>>In Spain where [ve] would tend to be pronounced the same as the name
>>of the letter |b|, it is expanded to _uve_.
>
>I much prefer the charming names "be de burro" and "ve de vaca."  I
>use them all the time in talking to our Mexican immigrants about
>spelling their names.
>
>Charlie
>http://wiki.frath.net/User:Caeruleancentaur

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