Re: wrong spelling

["Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>]

Poster: "Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>

> Don't worry about it, I'm still trying to convince some of my best, but
> not brightest, friends that LLAMAS is pronounced YAMAS not LAMAS, because
> it is a SPANISH word and in SPANISH the double L is pronounced as a Y.   

I don't know for sure, but I don't think the Incas said to the
conquistadores, "Hey, what the heck should we call these things?"
So I'm guessing it's really a Quechua word.

-- Alfredo

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