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To: svcw

>> turn the damned place into glass

Can we call it Pyrexistan?


23 posted on 10/14/2013 10:15:26 PM PDT by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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To: QBFimi
-stan is an Indo-European word meaning place. It is not Arabic, so no Arab country has that ending

But Indo-European countries have it, or countries that had Irani roots (like Kazakhstan, Tajikistan) even Hayastan (the Armenian name for Armenia)

41 posted on 10/22/2013 3:20:31 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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