From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 11:08:00 EST
Michael Everson wrote:
> At 11:04 +0100 2003-12-17, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> >There is reason to rename "Colonia" to "Köln", "Augusta" to
> "Augsburg",
> >"Eboraco" to "York", "Provincia" to "Provence", and so on.
>
> Nicely said. Subtle irony tends to go over some
> people's heads on this list though.
Especially if one forgets an essential "no". :-(
It should have been "There is NO reason to rename"...
> Eboraco is called Eabhrac in Irish. :-)
So, that's who set the bad example in the first place! When the Angles came
they said: if Britanni can mangle place names, why shouldn't Ingevones? :-)
Ciao.
Marco
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