Re: [PIC] a bird
From Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
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· 18 Sep 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <slr...@localhost.localdomain>, Lukasz Rewerenda <ele...@spam.precz.friko6.onet.pl> writes >Carl R. White decided to send the following: >>On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Lukasz Rewerenda wrote: >>> This bird is called "Majna" in Polish but I have no idea >>> what's its name in Latin or English. (But it is not a parrot). >>> >>I don't actually speak Polish, but if my assumption that the 'j' in the >>middle is used as a vowel, 'j' in Polish is like a short 'i', or a 'y' consonant. Together makes a hard-A and a short-I like "die monat Mai" (the month of May) in German; or my, dye, tie, high &c in English. >I'd say it's a Mynah (sp?) bird. >I think you are right -- the pronunciation is exactly the same. Yes---same word. I think it may have come from something like Malay & been copied sound-for-sound into various european tongues. |~/ |~/ ~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_.-;'^'0-|~~ P | Woof Woof, Glug Glug ||____________|| 0 | P O | Who Drowned the Judge's Dog? | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O O | answers on *---|_______________ @__o0 | O L |{a href="news:alt.religion.scientology"}{/a}_____________|/_______| L and{a href="http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html"}{/a}XemuSP4(:)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9d4882cacf4ddd86 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: [PIC] a bird Date: 1998/09/18 Message-ID: <6P5...@xemu.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 392544826 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xemu.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.209 References: <slr...@localhost.localdomain> <Pin...@dcsun2.comp.brad.ac.uk> <slr...@localhost.localdomain> X-Complaints-To: abu...@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 906155765 nnrp-07:27678 NO-IDENT xemu.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.209 Organization: 1st Canine Chapel of Bob Dobbs Dog (Church of the SubGenius) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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