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Kiplefti

Filed Under K 

Swahili for traffic roundabout. I love it for the origin (Keep Left signs placed by the Colonial authorities) and the way it has become Africanized. There is a class of words (Ki is singular, Vi is plural) that fits and Swahili always adds a vowel at the end.

Andy Carling

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