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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks for the correction and the more likely pun. Although not having heard of Coloma, Gollum makes a better mnemonic for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 3:55<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>PM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Klingon word: qol'om<br>
Part of speech: noun<br>
Definition: gold (element)<br>
Source: qepHom 2015 p.13<br>
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PUN: Gollum? ("I thought of gold as a precious metal. Who else likes precious things more than he should?" [nIqolay Q])<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, misattributed? This seems to have been postulated by André Müller, in a message dated Oct. 30, 2015. (nIqolay Q replies to and quotes that message the next day.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Coloma, California, was the originating site of the California Gold Rush:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloma,_California__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!4IVdZ66UiuSlV2I1T53g7RdFO7aCL21Ckv0POTuePx-FCrc6m8X7w32pnu5eCOng_iKLqE3b888bGHZwbHwPhwrBElk$">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloma,_California</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">De'vID<o:p></o:p></p>
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