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

 --- 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 ?

> 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 ;-)

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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