Peg writes:
yet its interesting that the Chinese character for ship is made up of eight people in a vessel.
Ship is comprised of the following components
boat + eight + mouth = Ship
bit of a coincidence, isnt it? Especially if they 'apparently' had no contact with the people in mesopotamia before the language confusion.
And just how is this word pronounced?
"Can we say the chair on the cat, for example? Or the basket in the person? No, we can't..." - Harriet J. Ottenheimer