Russian grammatical questions: Alaska and Hawaii

[William Ryan]

Nor can Nagasaki or Helsinki, but v Khel'sinkakh and v Nagasakakh, and 
even v Karachakh and v Deliakh are quite common even in formal Russian. 
I have no idea if any of these was originally a plural in the source 
language, like v Del'fakh or v Afinax, but the force of analogy is 
always strong. Perhaps rivers are less prone to this than towns because 
there is no classical model (that I can think of)?

Will


On 29/10/2010 18:50, Francoise Rosset wrote:
> (Not like Mississippi or Missouri which cannot logically pass for a 
> plural?) 

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