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Lee Maschmeyer
lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu
Thu Aug 30 15:58:44 EDT 2007
This is weird. "Bedawin" is in both Ben-Hur and in books by John Buchan and
Rose Macaulay, yet it isn't anywhere at dictionary.com. They do have Bedouin
(which I think is the spelling you gave originally) and the first syllable
is "bed", not "be". So there is no syllable boundary being crossed.
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Lee Maschmeyer
<lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>
"Be kind to your fur-bearing friends,
For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
--Fred Allen
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