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#132695 - 09/06/04 04:50 PM Letter J?
lastday stranger Registered: 12/27/00 Posts: 12 Loc: Earth	How many English Words end with the letter J? I read somewhere that there are not very many English words that end with the letter j. I cannot think of any at all. Can anyone else?
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#132696 - 09/06/04 05:18 PM Re: Letter J?
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	I can't think of a one, either. even OneLook didn't help much. tanj. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#132697 - 09/06/04 05:22 PM Re: Letter J?
sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui	Haj seems to be in the process of being adopted, so maybe we will have one one soon. _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html
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#132698 - 09/06/04 06:09 PM Re: Letter J?
Jenet journeyman Registered: 11/22/03 Posts: 81	Raj, hajj
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#132699 - 09/06/04 06:22 PM Re: Letter J?
sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui	Sorry about the missing "j" from "hajj". Transliteration is always tricky. I'm still trying to figure out what happened to the "y" from "raj", appropriately enough a four-letter word in devanagari. http://snipurl.com/8wbc-mq4201 _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html
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#132700 - 09/06/04 06:28 PM Re: Letter J?
amemeba journeyman Registered: 05/02/04 Posts: 89	Back in a long lost day, Lastday, it was considered cool to sport around in a bright red HenryJ.
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#132701 - 09/06/04 07:09 PM Brought to you by the letter J?
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	Today I wrote a poem And I put it in my book It's about a certain letter That's shaped sort of like a hook It's a very special letter And I like it quite a lot The big one has a line on top The small one has a dot It comes at the beginning of a word like jellybeans Or John, or Jane, or Jenny Or a brand-new pair of jeans You'll find it in the alphabet Between the I and K And if you haven't guessed by now Well, it's the letter J ~Sesame Street
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#132702 - 09/06/04 07:55 PM Re: Letter J?
jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California	Wrong word. sjmaxq. English raj is from Hindi rAj m. 'rule, administration, government, kingdom, dominion, regime'. rAjya m. 'kingdom, territory, government, body politic, principality, land, monarch, domain' is obviously related. Not sure what the -ya is; some kind of suffix. I don't think you count letters in Devanagri, but syllables. It is a syllabary, not an alphabet. It's a good trivia question. I count two for both: rA + jØ and rA + jya. (I could be wrong.)
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#132703 - 09/06/04 08:04 PM Re: Letter J?
sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui	This was one of those "should I retract the post?" moments. As soon as I posted it, I realised my mistake. As for the syllabary, that's just me being lazy. Apart from being a natural gift of mine, enahnced by years of studious cultivation, my laziness in this has been exacerbated by the excellent Baraha software, which I use to write devanagari. Because I'm typing letters, I tend to think of the output as letters, even though I know they are really (a garland of) syllables. I was also attached to the "four-letter word" idea for Raj, since the Indians I know who lived under the Raj tend to think of it in those terms. _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html
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#132704 - 09/06/04 08:23 PM Re: grammata serica
jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California	Because I'm typing letters, I tend to think of the output as letters, even though I know they are really (a garland of) syllables. Interesting, I use pinyin to enter Chinese characters, but they always seem like characters to me. Actually, they seem like kanji to me which is the Japanese term (borrowed from Chinese qian-zí) because I studied Japanese first. The image of rAjya was really quite beautiful. I was also attached to the "four-letter word" idea for Raj, since the Indians I know who lived under the Raj tend to think of it in those terms. Ah, I can be dense sometimes. I was totally oblivious to your other meaning. BTW, how's your Hindi learning coming?
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