From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Dec 11 2004 - 05:36:39 CST
At 17:38 -0800 2004-12-10, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>Other examples of apparent redundancy, are
>
>Cakes -> Keks (German), plural Kekse
>
>Baby -> bebis (Swedish), plural bebissar
>
>and there are many more such examples.
In Ireland sometime in the early nineties, the Allied Irish Bank
became AIB Bank, the Allied Irish Bank Bank.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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