To: AuntB
You are right. Howver, “kowtow” is spelled with a “k”. the term is not about cows. It is an Anglicization of a Chinese term for the proper method of bowing to a Chinese emperor.
13 posted on
04/23/2008 5:40:44 PM PDT by
rmlew
(There is no god but G_d and Moses is his Prophet.)
To: rmlew
Yeah, I know. I didn’t think anyone was petty enough to care.
Are you really that bored? Mine is even less Chinese. Just the way I like it.
15 posted on
04/23/2008 5:47:11 PM PDT by
AuntB
('If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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