On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:31:17 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

>> According to a story, probably true, Geo. Eastman invented "Kodak" as a
>> word that should be easy to say in most of the world's languages.
>
> There are probably a lot more languages that don't allow final
> consonants than do.

Indeed. One wonders about Mr. Eastman's knowledge of languages. Thank you
for the reminder.

Happy new year!

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