[WikiEN-l] Annoying exonyms (was: hatnotes)

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 03:17:47 UTC 2009


On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> And does "Vienne" actually mean anything in French? Google Translate
> helpfully tells me that "Vienne" means "Vienna" (yes, we knew that
> already).

Amongst possibly other things it's the subjunctive third person
singular of the verb "venir" (to come): "J'ai peur qu'il vienne trop
tot." - I'm afraid I'll come too early.

Steve



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