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Old Fri Nov 13, 2009, 01:21pm
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Originally Posted by Paul L View Post
...Unless the word has acquired a different definition in English usage.
Which, of course, it has.

When one language acquires a word from another language, there is no licensing agreement requiring the word to keep the same meaning. This would be especially true of place names.
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