Jason Cox hou taigu-bang e phoe:

Please respond to both the list and the sender. Responses could be either
in English or POJ.

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From: "Ioksin Loa" 
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:46:25 +0800
To: 
Subject: Unit of a House


Since you're on the maillist and should be having contact with more experts
than i do, can you do me a favor? I have a question concerning the unit of a
house in Taiwanese.

Nowadays, we call houses or apartments by "king1(é)"... as in ä¸éåï¹å
©é
å. However, when you look into place names in Taiwan, you see places like "
äºå¡åï¹å
­å¡åâ(Goh te chuï¹lak te chu) and if you look into the origin of
these places names, you see that a village started with 5 households (5
houses) came to be known as äºå¡å and then those started with 6 houses came
to be called å
­å¡å. But why is the unit here "åń" instead of "殪as we are
acustomed to today?

I've been trying to find out the answer.
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