| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Oct 11 03:18PM -0700 Hi again I didn't nominate a deadline. You have until midnight tomorrow GMT, so about 26 hours from now. Calvin On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 10:17:37 AM UTC+10, Calvin wrote: |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Oct 11 06:29PM +0100 > As I understand it, it was "renamed" a lot earlier. The local pronounciation > in Greek was Stamboul, but in Turkish you cannot start a word with s + > consonant. Whence the I. Well I'd heard that people just liked it better that way. |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 11 10:09PM +0200 >> pronounciation in Greek was Stamboul, but in Turkish you cannot start a >> word with s + consonant. Whence the I. > Well I'd heard that people just liked it better that way. Not sure what you are referring to here, but adding i before s+consonant is common in Turkish. My own country is isveç, Switzerland is isviçre. The city once known as Smyrna is now izmir. (I'm using lowercase i here, since the uppercase one is not available in Latin-1.) -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Oct 11 09:32PM +0100 >>> word with s + consonant. Whence the I. >> Well I'd heard that people just liked it better that way. > Not sure what you are referring to here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arh0qTUasaE http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/f/four_lads/istanbul_not_constantinople_lyrics.html |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Oct 11 04:47PM +0200 On 2016-10-10 05:48, Mark Brader wrote: pass -- -- Björn |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 11 10:09PM +0200 > * Game 9, Round 4 - Miscellaneous - 20th-Century Composers > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/9-4/compo.pdf > 1. Leonard Bernstein ["BERN-styne"]. E > 2. Arvo Pärt. P > 3. Henryk Górecki ["HEN-rick Goo-RET-ski]. F > 4. Vangelis. M > 5. Benjamin Britten. D > 6. Aaron Copeland. J > 7. Cvpgher A, na Nzrevpna obea va 1937. Ur'f xabja sbe bcrenf, > flzcubavrf, svyz fpberf, naq bgure jbexf, znal va n zvavznyvfg > fglyr. Philip Glass > Guvf bar vf n Ehffvna naq Fbivrg pbzcbfre jub yvirq 1906-75. > Ur pbzcbfrq 15 flzcubavrf, 6 pbapregbf, naq znal bgure pynffvpny > jbexf. Prokofieff > 16. Senax Mnccn. H > * Game 9, Round 6 - Miscellanous - The Longest Name > 5. What country has the longest name *that is only one word*? > It's in Europe, it's landlocked, and it's 13 letters. Liechtenstein > 6. Of countries whose names end in -stan, which one has the longest > name, at 12 letters? Turkmenistan > a 10-letter surname, who worked mostly in England and also > in Canada, but was born in a third English-speaking country. > Name that 13-letter *element*. I would say Korchaktovium, but it does not really match the countries... -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
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