You may well be right Winsor; I might have dredged it from childhood in
Singapore.
Chris
On 6 Sep 2004, at 22:13, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
> I thought it Chinese for tea.
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, CA
> USA
> On Sep 6, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> It was interesting wasn't it? However, I should question the idea
>> that
>> "chai" is of Russian origin. It is either Arabic or Hindi; perhaps it
>> therefore becomes of Russian origin because all Indo-European
>> languages
>> have a common origin ...
<|_:-)_|>
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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