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Re: CHAT: Visigoths (was: YADPT (D=Dutch))

From:Phillip Driscoll <phild@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 5:08
Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > BTW, did _austr-_ go ninety digrees anticlock- > wise and at some point? Austria and Austrasia > must surely refer to these being _eastern_ places, > not southern ones. Or are they just cases of > superficial latinization?
I don't know German, but isn't the German name for Austria _Österreich_, which means something like "Eastern Country"? I've always assumed that English _Austria_ was just a corruption of _Österreich_, rather than a derivation from Latin. --Ph. D. P.S. In North America, we always say, "counter- clockwise." The only time I've heard "anticlockwise" was from a math teacher who was from South Africa.

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Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
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