On 2012-10-12, Peter Lennox wrote:
as an aside (and without looking it up) ossuary clearly means some official receptacle for bones, I would guess?
Uhhuh. It's a sort of a secondary burial site where you either dump, or sometimes also carefully place, people's bones, once they've been cleaned by one mechanism or another. It's the stuff horror movie directors most like to shoot, and which is to be found beneath some of the chapels of Rome, plus certain monesteries.
That actually wasn't such a good example of a nasty English word, then. Let's then try my all time favourite: quay. There is absolutely no way to see how that ought to be pronounced, starting from the written form -- something that never happens in Finnish. It doesn't inflect much either. (So obviously it's going onto the page right now. ;)
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