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Re: Possible new name for "deity"



On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 02:57:38PM +0000, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> 
> Mitsubishi relates to it's logo... once you have decyphered that the logo
> is actually a diamond. And once you are told Mitsubishi means diamond. Get
> the point?

Actually, AFAIK, Mitsubishi stands for "Three Diamonds".  Mitsu is "three"
in Japanese, so I guess that means "bishi" is diamond.  :-)

(In Chinese, we call it "San Ling", i.e. Three Diamonds.  I wonder if it is
written the same way in both Chinese and Japanese.  :-)

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