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Pear

• Pear is a fruit.
• Pear’s Soap was one of the soaps we had in our younger days. Others include Lux and Palmolive.
• Pear’s Cyclopedia is not as thick as the other encyclopedias. It was published by the company that produced Pear’s soap.

U Hla Thein’s Anecdote

According to my late beloved father, Dhamma-ka- hti-ka U Hla Thein mentioned the following anecdote:

“Several people looked at a symbol on the table.

The first one said, ‘It’s Ka Gyi က”
The second one said, “It’s Da Dwe ဒ”
The third one said, “It’s Ya Pa Let. ယ”
The fourth one said, “It’s Nga Thut. င်”
Who’s right?”

There are different point of view. Each one will feel that he/she is right.

Dr. Nyunt Wai wrote:

The fifth one, who was directly opposite the fourth said, it’s 3