On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:07:02 -0400, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at NB.NET> wrote: >My thanks to anybody who can show me (in Chinese text) the original Chinese >word meaning "people-smuggler" ... of which this "snakehead" is supposedly >a calque. According to Wikipedia, it's <she2 tou2>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakeheads --Ben Zimmer