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Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 24

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 4, 2003, 16:56
Quoting Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

> --- Andreas Johansson skrzypszy: > > > I strongly suspect that no-one can guess what Telenzh _zepo^n_ > > [z@'po:n] "armed" is ultimately a distortion of. It does, however, > > actually retain two of the letters of the original word. > > The only thing that just doesn't stop coming to my mind here is > "Stallone". But > that's probably not what you are after. ZEP or ZEPO perhaps (the > Syldavian and > Bordurian secret police in Tintin?)?
None of those is even remotely close ... Anyways, the Bordurian secret police is called ZEPO? Did Herge know of the Swedish SÄPO, perhaps? Andreas