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Subject:
say ferret en français
From:
Gloria Jouppien <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 9 Jan 1995 07:38:08 -0500
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>a "ferret" is.  I came up a group of Spanish girls once just oooing and
>ahhhing over him, but there was just no translation for ferret.  "Is it a
 
>How nice!  In Mexican Spanish it is apparently "huron" (and how cool that
>we have a Lake Huron!).  In Greek it is apparently "neefeetsa" (if you
>spelled it in our alphabet; this apparently also means "weasel").  Anyone
>know what it is in Arabic?  Chinese?  Hindi?
 
Can't help you there, but in French the word is "le furet" and in German it
is "das Frettchen".
 
Gloria Jouppien, Sable, Whitey, & Tipper the Manx.
[Posted in FML issue 1069]

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