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   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an seachtú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:   
      
    > [...] In the case of Hebrew I was inclined to believe [PTD]. Possibly   
    > unwise, as our world expert on writing had apparently forgotten that   
    > Armenian doesn't use the Roman alphabet. He attacked me once for writing a   
    > name with -ian at the end, whereas he wanted -yan (or vice versa, I don't   
    > remember), apparently unaware that -ian and -yan are written in exactly the   
    > same way in Armenian. Consider Õ„Õ«Õ¯Õ¸ÕµÕ¡Õ¶ (Mikoyan) and Ô   
   Õ¡Õ¹Õ¡Õ¿Ö€ÕµÕ¡Õ¶   
    > (Khatchaturian).   
      
   Slightly relatedly, the Iranian president-president-elect Pezeshkian,   
   Ù¾Ø²Ø´Ú©ÛŒØ§Ù†ØŒ   
   has a transparently Armenian surname, with “pezeshkâ€� the native Persian   
   word   
   for physician. Wikipedia reports he is Azeri and I imagine he is Shia, my   
   working guess is that one of his ancestors converted to Islam after the point   
   that surnames became obligatory.   
      
   The Persian Wikipedia article lists him as a heart surgeon first, lots of   
   respect for physicians in that country.   
      
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   â€˜As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
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