OT: Polka folk

[Charles Doyle]

I intended "country" to be less definite, less politically precise, than "nation" or "kingdom."

--Charlie



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>Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:57:01 -0400
>From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> (on behalf of "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>)

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>But was Bohemia ever a "country"?  At most, I think, it was a relatively autonomous state in the HRE, although at one point Charles IV King of Bohemia became the HRE Emperor.
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>Joel

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