Czechia (new word!!!)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Jan 7 13:23:43 UTC 2002


At 3:18 PM -0800 1/7/02, Peter A. McGraw wrote:
>Odd--clunky and artificial though "The Czech Republic" is, "Czechia" feels
>highly unnatural to me (for reasons I don't understand), and I can't see it
>catching on.
>
>Peter Mc.
>
I agree with both sentiments.  I don't suppose either
"Czechononslovakia" or "Czechosansslovakia" would catch on...

larry



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