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Fw: nguyen to ryuen'
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I belatedly noticed that the first three letters of nguyen (Shanghai opium-smokers's slang for "to need badly") could be rearranged to form gnu (cf. Antelope Gnu, Adam Kozlevich's car in The Golden Calf). If we add rue (French for "street") and Russian soft sign to nguyen, we'll also get ryuen' (the old Russian word for September):
нгуен + рю + ь = гну + рюень
Alexey Sklyarenko
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нгуен + рю + ь = гну + рюень
Alexey Sklyarenko
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