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on 3/9/02 7:08 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> >> Zoy it is! Now, we need an 'any' prefix, because we're going to have to >> drop the Hindi 'koy,' as being too close to 'zoy.' > > How about "gin", from Scottish Gaelic? (Assuming I've read my _Teach > Yourself Gaelic_ correctly.) I don't believe there's a clear > equivalent in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, or Malay, all of > which seem to make do with various combinations of interrogatives and "all". Gin may work. Also maybe kel from French Quelqu'un -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/