Re: First stab

[Ivan Stojic <ivans@mioc.hr>]

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.