Re: hezbollah's etymo


Nigel Greenwood wrote:
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write καΐκι etc. Thanks for clearing this up.

How did you get the damn thing to put dieresis and accent together in
καϊκι? Would appreciate a tip.

[Words in Greek: tsái, tsáï, áypnos, aypnía, kaíki (boat -- as it
happens, sometimes written caïque in English).]

I'd love to get a nickel every time someone calls "English" an
unassimilated loanword or loan-spelling that's used as is, just because
it happens to be in an English text.

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