Re: Two questions about Esperanto

Philippe Caquant wrote:

>--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
>All the African orthographies I've come across use |w|
>to denote /w/.
>OK -
>you're say they're English based.  But is this really
>true.  I know of
>none that base the use of vowels on english practice.
>
>
>
That's probably because English practice is rather screwed up.

>I always found it very strange to see "Wagadugu"
>written "Ouagadougou" on every map of French origin.
>
>
Not just maps of French origin.  English, too.