Bukhara carpets

[Peter A. McGraw]

Aw, darn--spoil it for us, will you, Allen!

--On Friday, May 4, 2001 10:13 AM -0700 "A. Maberry"
<maberry at U.WASHINGTON.EDU> wrote:

>> BARF--A brand name for a detergent from Iran.  Barf gets things clean!
>
> barf = "snow" in Persian, pronounced more like "baerf" or even "berf",
> does not rhyme with scarf or English barf.



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu