Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Kukri Knives

http://www.torablades.com/

Want. But I hate the way they're spelling Filipino as Philipino.

I wrote to the site for them to correct it and Simon Hengle simonhengle@blueyonder.co.uk writes back:
Hello Mike,
There are about three or four spellings, that are all correct Mike,
Cheers Simon

Is he right? Are we Philippinos?

I emailed him again to check wikipedia. There's a nice note there where it clearly says that the use of 'Philippinos' is a mistake.


Hello Mike,

I applaud your enthusiasm, [sic]however when I was in the Philippines I checked with John John Mac and Anton St James, regarding the use of the different words, and the language used on the site was again cross checked in the Philippines, [sic]by the above [sic]pr-eminent [sic]Philippino Martial Artists already [sic]mentioned, as well as a friend of theirs that is a [sic]currator to a [sic]museam in the [sic]Philppines.

Cheers Simon

Well if you're up against that kind of person there is just no talking to him.

1 comment:

  1. Hello Mike

    Simon's spelling is atrocious, isn't it? However, don't allow that to put you off buying a kukri from Tora.

    It is thanks to Simon's efforts that
    Nepalese kami are once again making kukri to the old standards.

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