Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 7, 2003, 17:47 |
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Ian Spackman wrote:
>
> But Americans who have read _The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy_ books may
> recall a reference to supposed biroid life forms, even if they didn't get
> the joke at the time.
They must've changed it in the American publication, because I remember
them using the term "ballpointoid" or something similar.
Incidentally, I'd've interpreted "biro" as /biro/, rather than /bajro/
which someone else said was the pronunciation. :-)
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