Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (254544)	10/9/2005 6:13:12 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573094

"In fact, Americans routinely misspell the names of countries and their cities even when there is no Japan involved and the country in question, unlike Korea, uses the same alphabet we do." But many of those misspellings we inherited from the British. Sometimes the spellings are just older forms, i.e. Brunswick->Braunsweig. Others were attempts at Anglicising the spellings, Munich->Munchen. And yet others were when the name came down from different root origins, Germany->Deutschland. straightdope.com This tendency is not unique to the British or Americans.