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From: andersa@kuling.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Harbors and harbours
Message-ID: <883@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 21:52:58 EST
Article-I.D.: kuling.883
Posted: Fri Feb  7 21:52:58 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Feb-86 05:12:24 EST
References: <1180@utai.UUCP> <1045@lsuc.UUCP> <2788@sunybcs.UUCP> <395@snow.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <395@snow.warwick.UUCP> rpt@warwick.UUCP (Richard Tomlinson) writes:
>Once again I'm going to flame you Yanks for your misspellings. Even if we
>forget that harbour is the correct spelling it is particularly annoying
>that you misspell proper names. If a street is called "Harbour Pointe" then
>it is called "Harbour Pointe". What about Fenix, Arizona? In fact I would go
>as far as to suggest that Germany should be called Deutschland (sp?) .

I think I would agree that Harbour Pointe should be spelled that way,
but there is a difference between misspelling the name because of its
relationship to common words, and "translating" foreign names. What
about the following?

- K/obenhavn (Da), K"openhamn (Sw), Copenhagen (Eng)
- Helsing/or (Da), Elsinor (Eng)
- Stockholm (Sw, Eng), Estockolmo (sp? Sp), Tukholma (Fi)
- G"oteborg (Sw), Gothenburg (Eng)
- Moskva (translit. Ru), Moscow (Eng)
- Svalbard (No), Spitzbergen (Eng)
- Chung Kuo (Chi), China (Eng)

...and many others, of course. Bye the way, how should Cambodja/Campuchea
be spelled this year?
-- 
Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 183170
UUCP: andersa@kuling.UUCP (...!{seismo,mcvax}!enea!kuling!andersa)