Re: [OT] o-circumflex

From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 10:02:55 EDT

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Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:47:48 +0200, Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it> pisze:

> It's as weird as some Italian names for German cities: Aquisgrana
> for Aachen, Augusta for Augsburg, Magonza for Mainz, Monaco (di
> Baviera) for München.

Interesting that Polish names of these cities are more like Italian
than German: Akwizgran, Augsburg, Moguncja, Monachium.

Ko/benhavn is Kopenhaga, again more like other foreign forms than
Danish.

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