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Cliff,
The fault actually is mine. I enjoyed your pun on Europa. I did not think it would be offensive to ADAXL or anybody. But (being a pedant by nature) I could not resist explaining how most of Europe pronounces the name of their continent. Except the English. And the French. But reading my post the next day, I became convinced that I had crossed the line between being informative, and being obnoxious. So I deleted my post -- and thereby drew much more attention to the whole matter than had I simply left my post alone even though I thought I was exposing myself as an ... person with hooves, a braying voice and long ears.
Well, Willeke wrote (in another topic) that she wanted to have my braying restored, so I will yield to her wishes, as best I can. Actually, what I did was go to Google, and use the Language Tools page to translate "Europe" to various languages. It came up "Europa" in German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, and "Европа" in Russian, and it is pronounced "OY-ROPE-UH" in all those languages. But the French live on the continent of "L'Europe". And the English don't even live on the continent, they're on an island. Oops, there I go again...
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