Thread: How do you spell Haringey?
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Old January 19th 10, 11:54 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default How do you spell Haringey?
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:28:54 +0000
Jeremy Double wrote:
Well-known cities often have different placenames in different
languages: Venezia-Venedig-Venise-Venecia-Veneza-Venetië-Venice for
instance.

Tell that to the BBC who seem to insist on calling Bombay Mumbai. Why don't
they just go the whole hog and start talking about Pareee or Moskva or Roma
in that case then?

B2003

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