Sujet : Re: Bootcamp
De : clubley (at) *nospam* remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 09. Jun 2025, 13:44:06
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On 2025-06-07, Arne Vajhøj <
arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
On 6/7/2025 3:24 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 17:06:31 +1000, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
... just what went down at Malmo?
I think that?s either ?Malmø? or ?Malmö?, depending on which side of the
Øresund (or is that Öresund?) you?re on ...
>
It is Øresund in Danish and Öresund in Swedish, but it may be
most correct to use Malmö and Øresund, because Sweden got the
city from Denmark in 1658 (due to cold weather!!!!), but the
waterway stayed with Denmark (and Denmark collected tax from
ships sailing through until 1857).
>
$ set response/mode=good_natured
Us crazy Europeans and the fact we refuse to restrict ourselves to
using good old 7-bit US ASCII. :-)
What is interesting is how some same word spellings are pronounced
differently depending on which European country you are in.
Simon.
-- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFPWalking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
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