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Enton@entoron.bsky.social |
A special problem in Berlin is that nobody knows for sure if the old names are even Germanic/Latin or Slavic. Even the spelling transformation from Cölln to Kölln is observed over the centuries. Still less confusing to Euros than Seville, Ohio or St. Petersburg, Florida
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Enton
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Lol, I meant Toledo, OH. But Seville, OH is also real.
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Cheesemeister
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It kills me how language codification seems to be a rather recent c. 19th Century invention, as far as I'm aware. But even then, there's no stopping mistakes and mutations from taking root as new words. Even the Americanization of my last name seems to have arisen from misreading cursive.
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