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

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 0:40
--- 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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