On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:12:06 +0100, Michael Everson <everson@...>
wrote:

> They could have written on "bad" which means the same in English and
> Persian, if I remember correctly.

I once read that, more than likely by pure coincidence, that "dog" means
the same thing in a Central Asian language as it does in English.

Many, many times have I refrained from posting messages about languages
and linguistics to Qalam!

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