also sprach Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> [2002.07.21.2358 +0200]: > I think that the bits of geography on the south shore of that > northern lake, and the mountainous region on the northeastern > corner that big ocean have probably existed about the same > amount of time. SO... which one was there first? We're talking about a name, not a region. > Also, "Greece" is _only_ the _name_ given by the Anglos. I'd > bet a nickle that those-that-Anglos-call-Greece don't spell or > pronounce it the same as Anglos. So, I bet that Greece, NY > actually did get there first... Right, but I wouldn't expect to find a city named after the actual name of a foreign place in the United States. You'd call a place Marseille not Marseilles, Florence not Firenze, Munich not München, Rome not Roma, Copenhagen not Kopenhavn, Germany not Deutschland, etc. But whatever, in a thread subsequent to my mentioning greek philosophers, saying you are from Greece really makes it hard to understand that differently. Unless, of course, where dman's from there's a bunch of those humanists... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck you spelled Debian without ucfirst(), twice!
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