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> wrote:
Klingon word: qol'om
Part of speech: noun
Definition: gold (element)
Source: qepHom 2015 p.13
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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])
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:
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De'vID