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Thread #116829   Message #2512204
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
10-Dec-08 - 08:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: -bert
Subject: RE: BS: -bert
'We should all have a bertday once a year!'

That's a splendid idea, David. We could look up saints that end in bert and have a party on their day, or one could have a bertday 6 months after one's birthday.

Either way, chocolate and music making should be part of the day.

Wysi - okay.

One thing that surprises me is that no one has come up with a -bert that starts with J. J, it seems to me, is unusually popular for names. The J section of the dictionary is rather small, but the J section of my personal phone book is very large. John, Jean, Joan, Janet, Judith, Jill...

Naturally there is no X-bert. I don't think of X as a truly a letter. It's just something that was borrowed to accommodate foreign words.

Same for Q.