Lips, Gum Ridge, & Tongue All in a Mashup

       Police, protesters, and military fighting in Egypt today, and I take note of something I wrote on October 10, 2011:


       Confusion in Egypt today...and confusion in language.  Protests, physical fighting, gunshots, many deaths.

       Reports came on the radio: Coptic Christians protesting; there were police; there were security forces; the military.  Reporter spoke of "the cops interacting with the police"--wait, the cops are the police aren't they?    

       Later I realized Coptic is the adjective, Copts is the noun to designate those Christians.  You try to make the "p," "t," and "s" all work in "Copts" without sounding exactly like "cops."

       And maybe those security forces were the military, who after all are ruling Egypt at present.  In that case, in a sense, all of the feuding, fighting folks in Egypt today were COP(T)S.