X-Digest-Num: 38 Message-ID: <44114.38.128.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 21:11:46 +0100 From: Ivan Stojic Subject: Re: First stab X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 128 Content-Length: 630 Lines: 15 On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 08:18:57PM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > It would probably be worth creating a fu'ivla for "Croatia". I don't know > how "Croatia" is pronounced in Croatian, but using the English well let me put it this way: pronouncing 'croatia' is disguisting, pronouncing 'Hrvatska' as we call it would be deadly ;) > By the way, I've been wondering if the word "cravatte" (tie) and its > equivalent in other languages comes from "Croat", since apparently it was > brought to England by an English soldier who saw Croatian irregulars wearing > it. Yes! Croats do clame the invention of cravatte as our.