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'Zimbabwe' not Simbabwe

• grzm 10y ago
  Likely carried from another language, e.g., https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbabwe https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbabwe Similarly Ruanda/Rwanda
  • chirau 10y ago
    granted :) my mistake, overlooked that possibility
    • matt4077 10y ago
      No, it's quite alright – I should be writing in English. I do manage to, in general. But these "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike my native language"-words sometimes trip me up.
• sctb 10y ago
  We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13042260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13042260 and marked it off-topic.