Re: a weird question...
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 16, 1999, 20:50 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> > I also came up with _kane_
> > 'dog' (compare Italian _cane_), but I think I was influenced on that one
> > somewheres...
>
> Heh, I just remembered that I read in _The Language Instinct_ by Steven
> Pinker that the word for dog in a certain Australian Aboriginal language is
> <dog> :)
Mark Rosenfelder has a page about such phenomena:
<http://www.zompist.com/chance.htm>
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