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Literary notes on llamas and guanacos

February 9th, 2008 · No Comments

I have found Ogden Nash’s poem helpful:

The one-l lama,
He’s a priest.
The two-l llama,
He’s a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn’t any
Three-l lllama.

ll in Argentinian Spanish is not pronounced like y but rather like zh: Zhama

Also, to call someone a guanaco is an insult. It means he cannot be domesticated; he spits.

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