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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.)
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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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