Re: Kremlin
- From: naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Christian Weisgerber)
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:32:24 +0000 (UTC)
Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>The Kremlin in Moscow is well known.
> >>In Russian it is called Kreml'.
>
> Even if it didn't occur to us to pronounce the end of the word as we do
> for "camel", that wouldn't explain addition of an arbitrary syllable
> like "-in".
Presumably English took the name from French.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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