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Old September 22, 2013, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Rusty View Post
One possibility is the word for bread in the ancient Phrygian language (alternate spelling is 'bekos').
Another is the dialect form of the English word 'because'.

I suppose it could be a slang name in Spanish for any people or place.
Hi, good. It's from the Phrygian language.

I have an additional data for you:
Many years ago an Egyptian pharaoh made an experiment with two newborn boys. What he did was to rise them without having contact with any person, just a shepherd but he couldn't say a word. When they were around 8 (I think), the shepherd heard that they said to each other this word: 'becos' (which meant bread, but they were not saying bread to each other) and he communicated this to the pharaoh, and he was really disappointed because he thought they would speak his language.

If this is not new for you and you know anything else, make me know. Thanks.
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