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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">AFAIK not used in a sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(<a href="https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/En/NewWordsQepHom2025">qepHom 2025</a>, p. 32): Informally, you can use {<b><a href="https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/Megh-an">megh'an</a></b>} and {<b><a href="https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/-er-In">'er'In</a></b>}
for the two poles of a planet. More scientifically, the term for "pole" is {<b><a href="https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/SIk-ang">SIq'ang</a></b>}”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SEE ALSO:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">yuQ</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> planet (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">qo'</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> world (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ghor</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> surface (of planet) (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ghaptal</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> equator (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Quv</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> coordinates (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ngotrI'</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> latitude (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">lungrI' </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> longitude (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ngotrI'tal </span>
</b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">parallel (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">lungrI’gal meridian (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The request for {SIq’ang} was: "Both north and south pole of Earth as well as north and south pole of a magnet"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ALSO FROM qepHom 2025:<br>
tuy’wI’ Dop north pole [on a magnet] (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">rem’wI’ Dop south pole [on a magnet] (n)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/Den">Den</a> attract (of a magnet) (v) [qepHom 2024)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/PeQnagh">peQnagh</a> magnet (n) [qepHom 2016]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">--<br>
Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 14, 2025 12:36 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I just deciphered my first pun of the 2025 qepHom:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">At first, I puzzled over *SIq'ang*, the word for the pole of a planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Nothing forward comes to mind. So let's look at it backwards: *nga'qIS*.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">There is no word that's just plain *nga'*, at least not in canon. But I realized that *nga'chuq* is "have sex". And *qIS* has a similar <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">meaning: "be libidinous".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Then it hit me: it's a reference to _Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn_ by Henry Miller!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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