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I bought a cheap, but surprisingly good bottle of French Merlot that came from the Pays d'Oc in Southern France. It got me to wondering whether Oc might be among the shortest of all names for places. Are there any with just a single letter? Where are others with just two letters?
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I recall Joshua in the Scriptures fought a battle at a
place called "Ai", which, I believe, means "ruin".
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The word oc comes from Occitanie - as in Languedoc - which is now Aquitaine, the region of France where the wine you bought was produced.
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Actually it's the other way around. oc meant "yes" in southern France - contrasted with northern France where it was oïl. Languedoc is from langue d'oc "(the place of) the language of oc". Occitan was formed on oc as well.
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And Occitan is related to Catalan, if I've remembered
correctly.
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And Occitan is related to Catalan, if I've remembered
correctly. Occitan, Catalan, French, Spanish, they're all Italic languages.
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Yup, along with Italian, Portuguese, Provencal and I think
Romanian.
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they're all Italic languages.
Technically, they are Italic languages, along with Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian, but they are usually called Romance languages, and are all the modern forms of Latin.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Rivers and waters have two letter names more frequently than places. The Po, the Ob, we have a river Aa and the river Ee. Also we have the river IJ, which counts as one letter
( compare Y ) in Dutch. Ain't we lucky!
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