>>Actually we share the blame with Slovenian, Croatian, Macedonian and Bosnian. After so many centuries, it makes no sense looking for these vowels... they're just gone. And I have no hopes in archaeology either, they won't find them.
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>Not buried in the vowels of the earth then?

What's the word I'm looking for here? Hmmmm...

Oh, I know. Groan! <g>