Re: CHAT National toponyms (was: OT Caution!! IRA funding)

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
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> >Quoting PMVA <pmva@...>:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Joe ta nugatu-r:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Only there was never (at least in historical times) a Kingdom called
> >>>'Anglia'. East Anglia, sure.(incidentally, what was that in Old English?)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>_East Engel rice_
> >>
> >>
> >
> >_Rice_?
> >
> >I suggest we resurrect this word, and henceforth call Hitler's state "the
> Third
> >Rice".
> >
> >
>
> Pronounced [ritS@], I think.  Well, in the modern pronunciation most
> academics use.
Indeed. It'd be alot more fun, tho, to pronounce it as the spelling suggests to
modern anglophones.

                                                            Andreas