Date:    Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:30:49 -0500
<br>From:    Mark Mandel  Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM 
<br>Subject: mebos PS
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<br>My apologies if I have already posted this postscript. When I quoted a South
<br> African (children's?) song in English using
<br>this word, a week or so ago, I didn't remember any clues as to whether the song
<br> was originally in English or was
<br>translated, presumably from Afrikaans. Continuing to reminisce over the next few
<br> days, I recalled that the verse I
<br>remembered was followed by a verse in Afrikaans, in which I could make out
<br> enough to be pretty confident that it was
<br>the equivalent, so the song evidently *was* originally in Afrikaans. (Oh, I
<br> suppose it *could* have been written in English,
<br>and translated into Afrikaans.)
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<br>Also, for correctness' sake: I quoted the English verse with the word
<br> "tuppence". I'm pretty sure it was "thruppence".
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<br>       Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com
<br>    Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
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