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  "thread": {
    "id": 3277,
    "subject": "BOTNS: Thecla",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-05-24T00:30:46+00:00",
    "last": "2002-05-24T18:19:43+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-1065@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Russell Wodell",
        "address": "hse at telus.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-24T00:30:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) BOTNS: Thecla",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "How is the name Thecla pronounced?\n \nI believe it is Biblical, hence probably Hebrew… but I just suddenly\nnoticed how close the name is to “the claw,” which has implications… no?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-1075@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-24T18:19:43+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) BOTNS: Thecla",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0205-1065@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Russell Wodell wrote:\nHow is the name Thecla pronounced?\n\n\n\n\n\nI believe it is Biblical, hence probably Hebrew & but I just suddenly\nnoticed how close the name is to  \u001cthe claw, \u001d which has implications & no?"
        },
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          "text": "My understanding is that it is pronounced \"THEH-kluh,\" not \"THUH-klah\" or\n\"THEE-klah.\"  (Those \"th\" sounds might even be different, voiced vs.\nunvoiced, but I can't hear it right now.  The difference between \"thin\" and\n\"the\": yes, I think they are different, Thecla being like \"thin\" and \"the\nclaw\" being, obviously, \"the.\")\n\nBut yes, I have seen the discovery of the eerie linkage between Thecla and\n\"the claw\" a number of times over the years\n\n=mantis="
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