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[Gregory {Greg} Downing]

At 05:44 PM 6/4/99 Nicholas Widdows <nicholas.widdows at traceplc.co.uk> wrote:

>Secondly, is there a more appropriate list around that delights in
>etymological niggles, as this has nothing deep to do with sigmatic aorist
>laryngeals? I want to ask someone their opinion of deriving the jive terms
><bug, dig, guy, hepcat, honky> from Wolof; but not here.

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