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Re: Afrasian?

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Thursday, October 10, 2002, 23:13
Tony Hogard writes:
 > Tim May:
 >
 > > I certainly think it would be useful to have a term for the landmass
 > > as a whole, but I'm not entirely satisfied with Eurasica.  For one
 > > thing, Europe gets three unique letters, and Africa only one.
 >
 > Afrasiope?
 >

I think I'd prefer Afrasiopa, as all the other continents end in -a.
(How did Europe come to be named after Europa, anyway?)  Sounds a
little odd, but okay.

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