Re: CHAT: Japanese English (was Re: Correction, I hope, of M/C URL)

Christophe Grandsire wrote:


> A scythe? What a beautiful word! It's pronounced /sait/? /saiT/?
>
        I pronounce it /saiD/.

> In French, Scythe is the name of a people, 'les Scythes', they lived
> soemwhere in Greece IIRC. Is this the same in English? Is there any
> connection?
>
        The scythians! As far as I know, no connection. Their name in
pronounced differently in English (/skIDi@n/ in mine), but that's
probably not that significant.

        Aidan