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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 12:52)
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I think it's done to annoy the French.Though we English are generally pretty good at making up our own names for places, some based on the native name and others just for historical reasons.
For some reason English people were incapable of saying things like "Munchen", "Dunaw", "Veen" and, oddly, "Doichland" and have to say "Munic", "Danube", Vienna" and "Germany".
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Damn your eyes, sir......up until 14:49 today I only had the one place name to torment me!
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sponge monkey is knitting himself, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 14:59,
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There are a loads more.Poland has Warszawa which we call "Warsaw" instead of "Varshava" and Łódź which we pronounce "Lodge" (or something) instead of "Wooch".
Then there are country names which are close like "Spain" for "Espanya" and "Austria" for "Oesterreich".
We do it with historical figures too though I can't think of any at present.
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