Re: Europe v Europa
- From: "Peacenik" <cnelsonpublic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:01:43 +0800
"eponymous cowherd" <no@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I read somewhere that English is the only major language to not use
Europa as the name for this region. Is this true?
In Chinese it's "Ouzhou". But that's actually short for "Ouluoba zhou".
"Ouluoba" is a transliteration of "Europa", and "zhou" means "continent".
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