[WikiEN-l] English names

Wed Jan 21 17:33:50 UTC 2004

Yes, but to a stamp collecter it will always be Danzig.

Fred

> From: "Charles Matthews" <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:26:36 -0000
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] English names
> 
> Ed Poor wrote
> 
>> Gdansk doesn't "have an English name". It has an
> official Polish name, and it has also had a German
> name.
> 
> Can't agree with that.  It was always called Dantzig in the past.  From the
> Lech Walesa/Solidarity period onwards it was called Gdansk very prominently.
> That's what we call it now.
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
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