Comments by chamb244

  • "Bombolino" is the term used in most of Ethiopia for what North Americans would identify as a donut. It is sometimes thought to have originated from Italian (as do many cooking and mechanical terms in modern colloquial Amharic), but in my few visits to Italy, no one I spoke with recognized this word.

    August 25, 2011

  • so, does parhidrosis encompass both hyper- and hypohidrosis? are there other varieties of sweat secretion abnormality?

    August 25, 2011

  • The thing is, this word is pronounced quite differently by Ethiopians, Somalis and Yemenis (distinguishing the transliterations "khat" & "qat" doesn't seem to capture this in practice). It would be helpful to note which country/language a recorded pronunciation is meant to refer to.

    January 9, 2011

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    January 9, 2011