Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!ucbvax!LANCE.TIS.LLNL.GOV!carlson From: carlson@LANCE.TIS.LLNL.GOV (John Carlson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ Subject: Re: How do you pronounce "quipu" ? Message-ID: <8912190014.AA16301@lance.tis.llnl.gov> Date: 19 Dec 89 00:14:51 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 -According to the ISODE 5.0 manual the pronounciation of "quipu" is - kwip-ooo - -Now if quipu is named after the devices the Incas used to use then -according to my understanding the pronounciation should be more like - kip-ooo This word came up in a game of "Fictionary" I played this weekend. One made up definition was "A form of British slapstick." In French, it's probably kip-ooo too, but that doesn't have anything to do with Incanese. Which dictionary has the correct pronounciation? Injest, John Carlson carlson@tis.llnl.gov