Re: kawa = "gabagaba"?

From: "Marc Adler" <marc.adler@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 23 Jan 2006 16:11:21 -0800

Marc Adler wrote:

> Is this a joke? Granted, Japanese's roots in other languages or

Oh my. There's more.

According to a review on http://tinyurl.com/bstat, おっぱい comes
from オオウマイ.

This has got to be some kind of publishing prank.

Marc

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