[tlhIngan Hol] tlhIngan-Hol Digest, Vol 87, Issue 9

[Lieven Litaer]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 9:13?AM James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:

> Meanwhile, I've figured out several more puns:
> ghuD (fellow-X, be in common, be co-X): Backwards,
> this sounds like "drug/droog" -- the Russian (and Nadsat)
> word for friend.

I agree that Okrand's puns are sometimes very far-fetched, but in this case, don't you think it's the much more obvious from the song? "For he's a jolly ghuD fellow..."

Might be a coincidence of course.

Lieven L. Litaer.
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