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Date: Friday, 4 January 2008 16:20 (UTC)no subject
Date: Friday, 4 January 2008 16:37 (UTC)Was I influenced by German "Marokko" or by French "Maroc", though?
Looking through the interwiki links, -a- seems more common, and the -o- version seem to be those most likely to be influenced by English/American (e.g. Welsh and Tagalog, respectively).
Ach!
Anyway, thanks for the correction.
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Date: Friday, 4 January 2008 22:17 (UTC)no subject
Date: Saturday, 5 January 2008 08:22 (UTC)I don't know, though.
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Date: Saturday, 5 January 2008 12:23 (UTC)