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from the article: "the game he is compering is a parody of the "Yes-No Interlude" from Take Your Pick". What is "compering"? Is this a BE-only term? 75.41.110.200 ( talk) 15:14, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
At Talk:Ubuntu (philosophy), I wrote:
Nobody's answered there yet. (An example of what I have in mind is the words Lesotho, Sesotho, Basotho.) Michael Hardy ( talk) 16:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
The prefix in "ubuntu" is ubu-, not u-. The root is "ntu", meaning "human", as seen in abantu (aba-ntu, hence "Bantu", the anarthrous form) meaning "people" and umuntu (Z. umu-ntu, Xh. um-ntu) "person". Cevlakohn ( talk) 04:01, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
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from the article: "the game he is compering is a parody of the "Yes-No Interlude" from Take Your Pick". What is "compering"? Is this a BE-only term? 75.41.110.200 ( talk) 15:14, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
At Talk:Ubuntu (philosophy), I wrote:
Nobody's answered there yet. (An example of what I have in mind is the words Lesotho, Sesotho, Basotho.) Michael Hardy ( talk) 16:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
The prefix in "ubuntu" is ubu-, not u-. The root is "ntu", meaning "human", as seen in abantu (aba-ntu, hence "Bantu", the anarthrous form) meaning "people" and umuntu (Z. umu-ntu, Xh. um-ntu) "person". Cevlakohn ( talk) 04:01, 8 September 2011 (UTC)