Re: Vocab #5
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 29, 2002, 1:31 |
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Lars Henrik Mathiesen scripsit:
> > Oh yes, and there's Hans Christian Andersen, or is it -son?
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> Danish names in -sen, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, English in -son.
Sure. I was cracking wise about the average American's ignorance
of this point (which isn't fully reliable here anyway, as lots of
Danish names were changed in transit).
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