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> Date:    Mon, 2 Jan 1995 09:49:49 PST
> From:    John Crow <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Foreign Ferrets
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> Todd Cromwell wrote:
> Anyone know what it is in Arabic?  Chinese?  Hindi?
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> I do not know the languages listed above, but Ferret in Japanese is Shiro
> Itachi and in Swedish it is Iller.
 
 
Er.. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, `shiro itachi' is
japanese for `white weasel' (ermine!) - It may also be the term used for
ferrets, with so many ferrets being albino (at least that WAS the case
years ago). I just don't know. :)
 
Ermine!
[Posted in FML issue 1063]