Re: [OT?] Seeking for sample words in Yi, Cree, Lao, Sinhala, Tamil

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> Doug Ewell wrote:
> >
> > > - sheelpoon: no clue... Sounds English but...
> > > -it is an English word but quite popular, try again
> >
> > OK, with all those explicit clues from Suzanne, "cell phone" is

starting

> > to seem very likely.
>
> Why would the American rather than the British term have caught on
> there?

Most of my examples have come from Tamil-Canadian sites and they are
not meant to be prescriptive. This is all in fun-right?

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