More off-topic drivel: Re: Language and English

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From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Mon Jan 7 13:16:00 2002

> >That may be so, but I have never been able to understand how Muenchen(?)
> >ever got to be translated to Munich.

> Or Koln to Cologne

That's not hard, Colongne is just the old lattin name of Koeln.

Gruss
H.

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