HELP? Please? Felting...!!!! S.O.S.!!!

Hi David, in fact there is. Yoghurt was originally made from Yak(spelling?) milk. Sofia D

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Nope I wouldnt as the addy is a bogus one just for ng's.. however your other return is in, and I'll respond to this shortly have to walk the dogs etc before I reply....and of course before the sun goes to bed.. Cheers....Cher

LOL could be....

Well now that would not surprice me at all, since yogurt comes form the same region. Now I will also have a way of remembering that it is Yurt and not yurd......come to think of it that comes close to turd...never mind you did not read that.....LOL

Els

Spelled corectly, for once I can say that. An yak is another pack animal in the same region and also in Tibet. Again this is an very valuable animal. They are pack animals, give milk, dung for fires, and hair for felting and spinning, and I am sure meat if needs to be. Tents are made from their strong fibers, and I have pictures from the National Geographic magazine, of shepherds, wearing felted hats with felted tails sticking out from the hat, so when it rains, the rain will drip away from their necks. Sorry I do not have a scanner at the moment, thus can't send apicture of it to anyone. Clever though. These same men trekked through the mountains to bring salt to the people living high on the mountain tops. They use their yaks, huge solid type of the bovine family, as well as bactarian camels. You know that a little boy will walk behind the animals to collect the dung along the way, so they will have fuel when they stop for the night to keep warm and cook their meals on.

Els

Sofia, good point. Just like in English we used to call the capital of China 'Peking'. Now we call it 'Bejing' (spelling?) I think there is a lot of so-called 'political correctness' in this nowadays...

David

Thanks Sofia. I'm going to look it up in my dictionary.

David

Hi Cher,

Yes, we've been communicating. When I looked at noaddy more closely, it's really "no addy". lol!

David

lol! Also, if you delete the 'og' from yogurt, you get yurt. David

No it's a change in pronunciation to have it sound more like it's spoken in Chinese. For years, westerners used the Wade-Giles pronunciation guide; now Pinyin is preferred which is closer to the correct pronunciation.

sue

I'm going to murderously misspell, but how do YOU pronounce Nahm Penn?? (worse yet, giving away my age AGAIN, is there even still a Nahm Penn, Vietnam?) Curious, as long as we're on this discussion, lol! Hugs, Noreen

Phnom Penh is in Cambodia and as far as I've ever heard, that's as close to correct as a non Cambodian is going to get. Though sometimes I think I've heard an F sound at the beginning - like f-nahm penn.

sue

HI! Of COURSE, slaps forehead, it's in Cambodia, not 'Nam... yeesh, what WAS I thinking? Lol! Any way, thanks for the correct spelling.. my mind is totally SHOT this AM... I've heard it puhnahm penn (pronunciation) and just nom penn Noreen

Oh, I've heard it with the F, too, but more often with either the P or without....

Oh right, maybe that's the one I was thinking of.

And it seems to me that British English pronounces it differently than American English, as are so many things.

sue

Oh she's off again....lol...Cher

I'll have to look into this.

Katherine

Hi Sue,

Thanks for correcting my assumption! I have not heard that third pronunciation you wrote, is there a difference between English-speaking countries? (I'm in Canada.)

Thanks

David

Hi Susie,

I know endy, a woman who has volunteered several times through the Canadian government in Cambodia. She's pronounced it like you said susie. That's the way it's been pronounced on CBC radio too.

David

The third pronunciation of Phnom Penh you mean?

There is a difference in how words are pronounced. I've lived close to Canada and travelled over the border for most of the last 20 years and of course there was Peter Jennings on the nightly news, so I'm able to hear the difference in Canadian English and US English. And UK and Aussie English sound different than the others too. Our PBS station carries BBC World News every night so I'm able to hear the difference in pronunciation from the British side.

sue