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echo: fidonews
to: GERRIT KUEHN
from: MARK LEWIS
date: 2019-01-27 13:17:00
subject: Racists

 On 2019 Jan 27 18:16:00, you wrote to me:

 ml>>   p oh lish - people from poland
 ml>> vs
 ml>>   p ah lish - to make shiny

 GK> May that be US pronunciation? The ones I have here are pretty much the
same
 GK> for both meanings, except for the length of the "o" (long for the nation,
 GK> shorter for the shine - so it's more like "oh" and "o" than "oh" and
"ah").

yes, that's what i was trying to describe with a little bit of exaggeration...
either way, the country and its people are Polish (with the long O) and the
others are pronounced with the "short o" or "ah" or "uh" or similar depending
on dialect, speech impediment, etc...

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