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On Monday 07 June 2004 03:04, Philip Newton wrote:
> Greek uses "rigani".

In Greek, rho at the beginning of a word has a rough breathing, though the 
breathings are silent in modern Greek. Dropping the initial vowel is also a 
modern Greek thing. So {xrigani} is a possibility, but I'm not sure if it's 
linguistically justified.

> And Chinese apparently uses niu2zhi4, though I'm not sure what "the cow
> arrives"(?) has to do with oregano.

The cow arrives and bites the wax tadpole. It's probably a fu'ivla. If not, 
it's a homonym.

phma
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