Re: Chinese/japanese Pronounciation

H. S. Teoh wrote:



>On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:49:39PM ?, Stefan 1of3 Koch wrote:
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>> The other is "quincunx" which is Chinese.
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>No idea what that might be. It doesn't look like Chinese.
Is Latin.  AFAIK, it refers to an arrangement of five (quinc-) items (e.g.
trees in an orchard) in a large X-like shape--


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