On 2025-12-14, James Nicoll <
jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
Cold War in a Country Garden (Dilke, volume 1) by Lindsay Gutteridge https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/in-the-garden
- I'm skeptical about the presence of an antlion in a British garden.
- There is no political subtext to "Rumania" vs. "Romania". If you
look at the currently favored forms across European languages, it's
a wild mix between u and o. (Before somebody gets too clever:
French "Roumanie" falls into the u camp for this purpose.)
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber
naddy@mips.inka.de
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