Re: y sound
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 1:47 |
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Pablo David Flores scripsit:
> Ask a Spanish speaker to write the common word for "polystyrene"
> in Spanish. I've seen all of "tergopor", "tergopol" and "telgopor"
FWIW, Google shows tergopor 32 hits, tergopol 223 hits, telgopor 1740 hits.
Even telgopol gets 7 hits.
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