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Re: CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others cities (was Re: The [+foreign] attribute)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 8:57
En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> (Gilbert Is), Pohnpei (Ponape), Chuuk (Truk) etc.?? I once had _two_ > students from The Country Whose Capital is/was? Ouagadougou, a > beautiful > word-- fascinating language too, More [mOre]-- and difficult (we used it > in > a Field Methods class). >
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 :)) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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