Re: CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others cities (was Re: The [+foreign] attribute)
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 10:11 |
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Ouagadougou is the capital of Cameroun (at least when written with the French
> orthography), former Haute-Volta. I still remember it because such a name sound
> so silly in a French ear that it's unforgettable :)) .
I found it on a globe when I was 6 or 7 and found the name hilarious.
BTW Haute-Volta is now called Burkina Faso, it was part of French West
Africa.
---ferko
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