Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 2:43 |
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 05:20:52 -0500, Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>
wrote:
>Oh, I just remembered one of those triple vowel things in Romanian --
>copiii. Dreadful. I was sure it was a typo the first time I saw it.
I just remembered, Dutch has "zeeeend" for "sea duck" (also spelled
"zeeëend" or "zee-eend") (specifically, the genus _Melanitta_, "scoter" in
English).
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