Re: [OT] o-circumflex

From: B (11@onna.com)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 13:24:47 EDT


If they can't agree on the pronunciation for these cities, can they agree on the Hanzi for them?
What ARE the Hanzi for these cities, anyway??

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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 M$B!&(Bchen.
>
>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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