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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: "Chier" and "shit"
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In article <3j9tot$h7k_004@actrix.gen.nz>
           kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz "Paul J. Kriha" writes:
> This is amusing.  "cacare" and others have undergone such a great
> shift in pronunciation in the languages of the same group.
> An yet, some them 'on loan' to other groups are still pronounced
> almost as they were in the Roman times.
> 
> eg Czech
> "kakat" - to poo (child expr. 'almost polite')
> "kaka'" - he/she poos, etc....

Or English "cack".

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