Thanks for the correction and the more likely pun. Although not having heard of Coloma, Gollum makes a better mnemonic for me. From: De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2024 5:57 AM On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 3:55 PM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org<mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org>> wrote: Klingon word: qol'om Part of speech: noun Definition: gold (element) Source: qepHom 2015 p.13 _______________________________________________ PUN: Gollum? ("I thought of gold as a precious metal. Who else likes precious things more than he should?" [nIqolay Q]) 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.) Coloma, California, was the originating site of the California Gold Rush: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloma,_California<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloma,_California__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!4IVdZ66UiuSlV2I1T53g7RdFO7aCL21Ckv0POTuePx-FCrc6m8X7w32pnu5eCOng_iKLqE3b888bGHZwbHwPhwrBElk$> -- De'vID