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Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 24

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 4, 2003, 9:38
 --- 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?)? Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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