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Debezo (Offline)
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Japan
06-14-2007, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatredcopter View Post
あっ、そう。 And here I spent all this time not realizing that 英 was イギリス .

And now that brings me to another Japanese pet peeve... why is it イギリス and not イングランド or ブリッタン?
This pronunciation came from Nederlands 'Engelsch' or Portugues 'Ingles'.
Many old loanwords are from non-English. e.g. コック(a cook) from Nederlands 'kok'.
Well, it is called イングランド on the football, and it is グレートブリテン および 北アイルランド連合王国 on my atlas. (no one call it...)
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