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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Foreign city names #6049 09/05/00 05:30 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland wsieber old hand wsieber old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland In Swiss Intercity trains, station names are usually announced in the 3 national languages plus English. Even though nowadays, the announcements are recordings by a professional speaker, some place names (e.g. Spiez) stubbornly resist "translation". On the other hand, Basel used to be Basle in English, Bâle in French, Basilea in Italian, until officialdom decided on a radical simplification (there was no popular vote): everybody has to say Basel now. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Foreign city names Maxine 09/04/00 04:56 PM Re: Foreign city names william 09/04/00 05:11 PM Re: Foreign city names Max Quordlepleen 09/04/00 06:15 PM Re: Foreign city names wsieber 09/05/00 05:30 AM Re: Foreign city names Max Quordlepleen 09/05/00 06:42 AM Re: Foreign city names Jackie 09/05/00 02:24 AM Re: Foreign city names RhubarbCommando 09/05/00 04:28 PM Re: Foreign city names TEd Remington 09/05/00 04:58 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts229,997 Members9,198 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish 9,198 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 660 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 24 A C Bowden 15 LukeJavan8 5 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,958 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,956 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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