HW: Ghent, 23.07.1996

Andrew Gilham Andy_Gilham at MSN.COM
Sun Nov 17 17:02:36 EST 1996


No, what it is, is that inside Belgium, it's spelled "Gent", but in English,
it's spelled "Ghent".  It's what's called an exonym.  Like, the French spell
"Marseilles" without the final "s", or the Indians call their country
"Bharat", the French and the English spell "Muenchen" as "Munich", etc etc.

- Andy



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