Oldest words in English?

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:35 PM -0600 2/26/09, Dennis Baron wrote:
>to me, bekos are those kosher bacon bits you sprinkle over salad. they
>are the staff of life.
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>don't the klingons have a saying, "Today would be a good day for bekos"?

But there's another, "Klingon does not live by bekos alone".


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>On Feb 26, 2009, at 2:19 PM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
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>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>Didn't Psammetichus prove it was Phrygian?
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>>LH
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