If emerald is a beryl and Patmore was the surname of Beryl Patmore, that's almost certainly the pun!


I notice, however, that we have a request for "beryllium" currently up at the chabal tetlh. This pun on "beryl" has been taken, so Marc Okrand will need to come up with a second beryl pun as a Klingon word for beryllium? *'o'qapyt*? Perhaps, turning to another character named Beryl, Marc Okrand will use *qeyqoHan*.



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>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 15:57:00 +0000
>From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
>To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: patmor
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>Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, December 09, 2023
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>Klingon word: patmor
>Part of speech: noun
>Definition: emerald
>Source: Wizard of Oz translation
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>AFAIK not used in a sentence.
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>PUN:  A "Downton Abbey" pun?  The first name of head cook Mrs. Patmore was Beryl.  (cf. https://downtonabbey.fandom.com>
>/wiki/Beryl_Patmore)
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>"The beryl family includes some of the most popular and expensive gemstones. Emerald and aquamarine are well-known and >popular choices for jewelry... "
>(https://www.gemsociety.org/article/beryl-jewelry-gemstone-information/ )
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>SEE ALSO:
>naghboch     gemstone (n)
>choSom     quartz (n)
>qut         crystal (n)
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>TREK NOTES:
>  ?And her eyes, as hard as *separ* gemstones and twice as sharp.? (Worf describing the Lady Grilka, DS9 "Looking for Par'Mach >in All the Wrong Places".