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Re: [OM] Chrzaszcz

Subject: Re: [OM] Chrzaszcz
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:10:40 -0500
And English is mine.  But that doesn't guarantee that I'm correct in 
it's vocabulary or usage.  Chris can probably attest to that.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt

Nathan wrote:
> Of course I'm right, Polish is my mother tongue :-)
> 
> On 10/02/2009, at 22:57, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 
>> I've never before seen a Polish word that I can recall that puts "ch"
>> and "rz" together.  Either one is hard to pronounce for a non-native
>> speaker and I was sure it must be a typo to have them side by  
>> side.  But
>> you're right. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrz%C4%85szcz>
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> Nathan wrote:
>>> Only the Slavic ones, that's why a classic Polish tongue twister
>>> reads: "Chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie" and one of my favourite Liverpool
>>> FC players, who is either Czech or Slovak, is called Skrtel.
>>>
>>> The Germanic and Latin languages have plenty of vowels.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>>
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