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Old 05-30-2005, 04:15 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Jazhara7
I made up the name "Igrette". It was actually a misunderstanding of a french pronounciation of the french letter "Y". I thought it was pronounced "I gret", and I thought it funny, because I knew the meaning of it was something like "'I' strange".

But in reality the name of "Y" in french is "I grec", which still means something like "'I' strange", I think.
I'm trying to sort this out...
I strange? Y is prononced "e grec", and it means "greek I".
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