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"Tomasz Antkowiak" > wrote in message ... > > > Charles Fregeau wrote: >> >> >> Small world. One set of my great-great-grandparents emigrated from, >> we think, Posen sometime between 1855 and 1872. > > Let me think....hmmm...no I haven't known your grantparent )) But the > world is really small. > So...you are in fact a polish guy - in a few % Do you know any polish > words ?) > > > -- > Tomasz Antkowiak > antek VW 1500'66 Brown Sugar > pl.misc.samochody.garbusy > GG 7772401 > I do know a little Polish, but not for reasons you would expect. I work for a meat packing company and a lot of the floor workers are from various Eastern European countries, mostly Poland. I'm a bit of a mutt, I've got everything from Polish to Irish and everything in-between, and a little American Indian just to make it interesting. Charles of Kankakee |
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"celia" > wrote in message ... > > Użytkownik "cloud8" > napisał w wiadomo¶ci > . .. > > What do you call a Beetle in Polish? I am making a list... > > Kupla - Finnish (bubble); Vocho - Spanish; Cochinelle - French; > > Boble - Norwegian > > In Polish "Garbus" (pronounced as garboos). The translation of this word is > quite unusual because it doesn't mean "Bug". "Garbus" means sth like > "humpbacked". > > "That sodding car" - English |
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"Juper Wort" > wrote in
: >>"celia" > wrote in message ... >> >>In Polish "Garbus" (pronounced as garboos). The translation of this word > "That sodding car" - English Since this is a Family Group, I won't even mention what it is sometimes called in American English... -- Bill Merrill Arlington, Mass. '70 Convertible |
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"cloud8" > wrote in message . .. > "Juper Wort" > wrote in > : > > >>"celia" > wrote in message > ... > >> > >>In Polish "Garbus" (pronounced as garboos). The translation of this word > > > "That sodding car" - English > > Since this is a Family Group, I won't even mention what it is > sometimes called in American English... > > LOL ,I nearly did that one instead, but had the same concerns... James |
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