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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: U-krayna?
Message-ID: <D41MxM.t5@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <D3oGuE.38@actrix.gen.nz> <1995Feb13.204423.12229@relay.acadiau.ca> <3hpjta$nvg@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 13:32:08 GMT
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In article <3hpjta$nvg@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> Marek1@ix.netcom.com (Marek Konski) writes:
>In <1995Feb13.204423.12229@relay.acadiau.ca> alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan McKay) writes: 
>>My Russian-language teacher in Odessa, Ukraine, told us that it came
>>from "at the edge" (3rd definition, from above).  
>
>It sounds like that, but I heard that some Ukrainians, for some 
>reason, much dislike this sort of explanations.

Do they simply dislike the etymology, or do they disagree with it?
If the latter is the case, where do they think the name comes from?
Would they rather be known as Wee Russians rather than Marchlanders?

>>That is, it was at the edge of the Slavic empire.
>
>I'm sorry, but what was that exactly?

The Slavic Empire?  It was the thing between the Kingdom of Scandinavia
(also known as Hungary) and the Republic of Asia.  Somewhere over there.

-- 
`I'm sendin a flood tae pit an end tae it aw.  But dinny worry yersel, Noah.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
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