bishop

[Stanley Friesen]

At 07:36 PM 7/25/01 +0300, Robert Whiting wrote:

>Because it is unlikely to have happened.  Not that it is impossible as a
>theoretical concept, but the outcome is wrong.

>...
>Pentti Aalto once told me a story about a lake in Karelia which the locals
>called simply 'järvi' "the lake".  Then the Russians came and asked "what
>is the name of the lake?"  They were told, and so the name in Russian
>became Ozero Järvi ("Lake Lake").  Then the Germans came and asked what
>the name of the lake was and were told and so the German name of the lake
>became Ozerojärvisee ("Lake Lake Lake").  I don't know if the story is
>true or not, but Pentti Aalto told a good story.

Once, while researching the history of England, I ran across a hill whose
name meant Hill Hill Hill, or was that Hill Hill Hill Hill.  So it
certainly happens.

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