Prepare Ye For the Coming of the DERB!

[Pierre Abbat]

>Kir -- Isn't leaven YEAST?  still, I like the hint of xleb... [(a) Leaven
>is whatever you put into bread to make it rise. Yeast is used most
>commonly, but there are other possibilities, like sour milk. (b) What's
>"xleb"? -- Hutch]

Russian for bread - pronounce "x" as "kh" (it's written as "x" in Cyrillic).
This reminds me of Starting Forth, by Leo Brodie, in which someone types
"XLERB" to a Forth interpreter. The interpreter searches the dictionary,
scratches his head, shows it to NUMBER who laughs at it, and finally, with a
puzzled expression, retorts: XLERB ?

phma