Re: CHAT: geographical nomenclature [was Re: Language of Tetril]

Fabian wrote:
> This reminds me of a news article a few months back. A guy in Boston
> founded a society for the abolition of the aberrant apostrophe (saaa, as
> they say in Japan). An American newsfeed picked up this article, and it
> got syndicated in numerous newspapers throughout the USA. Unfortunately,
> they all assumed it was Boston, USA, when really it was Boston,
> Lincolnshire. _The_ Boston, as they would say in Lincolnshire.
That's almost as good as the South African athlete who was once
described by (iirc) an American television announcer as
"African-American".


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