More off-topic drivel: Re: Language and English

From: Michael Schneider <ms_at_silke.rt.schwaben.de>
Date: Mon Jan 7 13:43:09 2002

Nooo, that's 'Colonia Agripina'.

Cologne comes from the old french transliteration 'Colognia'

ms



On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 20:16, Hans Franke wrote:
> > >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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>

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