[WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting to ignore MoS, NCs for language reasons.

Tony Sidaway f.crdfa at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 04:28:58 UTC 2005


On 11/15/05, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
>
> > Alba,
>
> Erm...

Ken ye no the name o' Bonnie Scotland? Dinnae fash yersel', it's
mostly teuchters use it.

>
> > Euskal Herria,
>
> Erm...

Basque Country

>
> > Confoederatio Helvetica,
>
> Switzerland?

Yes.  Having four official local languages, they decided to choose a
fifth, Latin, for the official name of their country.



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