It's all beyond me, I don't know my Erse from my Alba

   On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Paul Gretton
   <[1]i...@gretton-willems.com> wrote:

     Good point! Similarly, we don't say "Deutsch" when we mean "German"
     or
     "Nederlands" when we mean "Dutch". In the same vein, it annoys me
     when
     various BBC pundits talk of the language of Iran as being "Farsi" as
     opposed
     to "Persian". (It seems btw that the Persian equivalent of the
     Academie
     Franc,aise would in any case prefer us to use "Persian".)

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