Re: More stupidities

From: *** T. Winter (***.Winter_at_cwi.nl)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:34:36 GMT

In article <do50k01i8ha77gaagsh3tmeckikoicpivj@4ax.com> Ruud Harmsen <realemailseesite01@rudhar.com> writes:
> Thu, 09 Sep 2004 09:19:57 -0700: Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au>:
> in sci.lang:
> >CANKT HETEPCbYPF! (did I spell that right? My eyes go
> >all funny looking at it)
>
> No, CANKT HETEPbYPF, without the s. The s comes from German or Dutch,
> like the name itself of course.

It is interesting to note that the officials of that city spell it with
's' if they spell it in Latin, but without when spelled in Cyrillic.
Moreover, in English they use "Saint Petersburg". Look at the official
web-site of the city:
   <http://eng.gov.spb.ru/>
for the English version. And you can find it all over the place in that
city. 

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