Re: Telona on the web at last

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From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
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Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: Telona on the web at last


> Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>
> > Couldn't it be [bOt] actually? "botte" is the name of the biggest size
for
> > a glas of bier (two litres ;)) ) which actually has a boot-shape indeed
> > :)) .
>
> That's quite plausible.  I saw the example perhaps two decades ago.

That's not very common.

And "botte" is feminine in French, then it would be "une botte" [ynbOt], not
"un botte" [9~bOt].

And what is that [StOf] at the beginning? The waiter's nickname?


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