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Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Monday, March 26, 2001, 1:57
Scripsit Johannes Cowannus:

>Right enough. And we even have a song "Columbia, the gem of the ocean" >which uses it. (This song was originally written as "Britannia, the >gem of the ocean", which makes a whole lot more sense, but it didn't >catch on in the U.K., so the song's author decided to remarket it.)
Something tells me it didn't exactly catch on here either. How about "Mongolia, Gem of the Ocean"? Maybe it'll sell there... Padraic.
>John Cowan

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