Re: Country names

Staving John Cowan:
>Tristan McLeay scripsit:
>
> > Hm, well if one-l lamas are pronounced with a /l/, and two-l llamas are
> > pronounced with a /j/, what're three-l lllamas? /lja:m@/? :)
>
>It's more usual to pronounce both "lama" and "llama" in English with /l/.
>
>Nash points out in a footnote that a "three-l lllama" is a fire to which
>three firetrucks respond (a "three-alarmer").
>
Yes, I believed that somebody replied to Nash's poem with the lines:

My brother in the Fire Brigade
Tells me of what they're most afraid.
When sirens wail in dire drama,
That's what they call a three-alarmer.

Pete