Oldest words in English?

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

So he said. But "bekos" means 'bread' in ProtoKlingon.
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At 12:10 PM -0500 2/26/09, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 2/26/09 11:46:42 AM, thnidu at GMAIL.COM writes:
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>>  On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:37 AM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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>>  > But no one has ever claimed that the first humans spoke PIE.
>>  >
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>>  Oh, come on, Ron. Bet you a pie that some journalist has.
>>
>>  Mark Mandel
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>There were a lot of people who thought they spoke Hebrew, and a few who held
>out for Dutch. I personally think it was some form of Klingon.
>
Didn't Psammetichus prove it was Phrygian?

LH

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