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Re: Bunty.

From:Peter Collier <petecollier@...>
Date:Friday, June 20, 2008, 15:26
--- Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:

> Probably by then, they will have appended -land, and > called the > province Byntarland, with a regular fem. i-stem > genitive. > > Now, if this were borrowed into English, we would > probably get y>i > parallel to other ON loans, and possibly eventually > the genitive > ending would be lost altogether, giving a modern > Bintland.
I just love 'Bintland' - it conjures up such a marvellous mental image of some kind of theme park of 'ill repute'. Capital city would have to be Wenchborough... P.

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Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>