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Greetings from Armenia, where the Armenians are gracious enough to let me try some basic phrases in their language – which is thrilling for an Indo-Europeanist like me. I'm getting a kick out of ordering two things with երկու (yerku) 'two', the unbelievable Armenian cognate of two/deux/dos/dva/etc.

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I'll add that it does wonders for the ego to be on a walking tour through a new and far-from-home city, making friends with your fellow travellers, and to find out that one has bought and read your book. 'Yerevan? More like Hell-yeah-revan!' I thought but didn't say.

Have you been to the Armenian Alphabet Monument? One letter (the t of yerku*) was on the cover of the Dutch proto-version of my book Lingo. * So yerku begins with a t after all!

It's on my radar but not on my itinerary this time! But that may change, I desire greatly to pose next to the giant Armenian E/T...