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This isn't just Anglophones being boorish and Anglocentric, either. Those cities also have different names in German or, more obviously, Chinese.
by dmurray 6y ago
This isn't just Anglophones being boorish and Anglocentric, either. Those cities also have different names in German or, more obviously, Chinese.
- Symbiote 6y agoIndeed, and naturally British and Irish cities have different names in other (European) languages. In French: Douvres, Londres, Édimbourg. In German: Edinburg. In Italian: Edimburgo, Glascovia, Londra, Novocastro, Dublino. In Chinese: Jiànqiáo (剑桥) (lit. "sword bridge", Cambridge)