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April 19, 2005

you say 'papum'...

According to a reporter on radio 5, we’re about to hear someone say ‘habemus papum’. But the next reporter said he’d say ‘habemus papum’. The first one said ‘pay-pum’, the second said ‘pah-pum’. That’s what happens when you speak a dead language (it happens with live ones too, of course).

B-)

Posted by Billy at April 19, 2005 4:59 PM

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