Re: I'm back, and an 'ow' question ...

bn wrote:
>
>  --- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote: >
>I'm back from Berlin (where I had a very nice time)
> > and nomail, and am
> > having a little linguistic question:
> >
>
>ah, berlin. lovely city. where were you staying ?
The Odyssee Hostel in Friederichshain (in former East Berlin).

> > In and around Berlin, there's quite a few placenames
> > ending in _-ow_. I
> > asociated this with Polish _-ow_, Russian _-ov_ etc,
> > and pronounced it [Of],
> > getting corrected and told that it should be [oU]
> > (or something like that).
> > I was told it was from some local Slavic language,
> > which I couldn't get
> > specified stricter than "not Sorbian". Can anyone
> > here give more
> > information?
> >
>
>confused me too. bloody german, pretending to have a
>strict set of spelling rules and then providing all
>these counterexamples ;-)
Well, German orthography is rather more regular than a certain other
Germanic language I could mention! :-)

                                              Andreas

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