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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: The name of the German nation
Message-ID: <1995Jan19.024608.26288@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 02:46:08 GMT
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In article <1995Jan18.150432.27596@midway.uchicago.edu> deb5@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>Absolutely.  Because German is not my native language, I confirmed that
>form in _The Oxford Duden German Dictionary_, 1990 ed.  I don't know
>why it should be so surprising that the English and German names differ.

Argh.  I meant to write, "that the English and *French* names differ."
My resistance to learning French has carried over even to mentioning its
name. ^_^
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