On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Mark A Mandel wrote: >On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, David Silberstein wrote: > >#"bölcsesség", [1] for example. :-) ># >#[1] (or "bolcsesseg", if you have problems with accented characters) > >"Bölcseség" / "Bolcseseg", actually, with single "s", as well as (as you >have) umlaut on the "o", and acute accent on the second "e". > >http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/names.html#Wisdom > It may be spelled that way in "Brokedown Palace", but every Hungarian dictionary I've checked, online and off, as well as a native Hungarian speaker, confirms that "wisdom" is spelled "bölcsesség" in Hungarian. Dueling URLs... http://consulting.medios.fi/dictionary/?language=en&search=wisdom&allow=false (this site is useful for researching other Hungarian terms that Steve uses, e.g., http://consulting.medios.fi/dictionary/?language=hu&search=agyar ) http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a93l98$nf5$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (this was an interesting thread with all sorts of fun speculation (and facts) about what various words mean; you might want to check it out)