Re: USAGE: Cool idioms (was Re: Bibliography)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 29, 1999, 1:11 |
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FFlores wrote:
> The only one I can think of here is Ushuaia /u'swaia/ (it's
> the southernmost city on Earth). I don't have a clue why it's
> spelled like that, totally un-Spanish
Probably a Native American word. Maybe the <sh> indicated /S/, but
since that sound doesn't exist in Spanish, it was rendered as /s/? Or
maybe it actually represents an /h/? Who knows?
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