From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2025-12-14, James Nicoll  wrote:   
      
   > Cold War in a Country Garden (Dilke, volume 1) by Lindsay Gutteridge   
   > https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/in-the-garden   
      
   - I'm skeptical about the presence of an antlion in a British garden.   
      
   - There is no political subtext to "Rumania" vs. "Romania".  If you   
     look at the currently favored forms across European languages, it's   
     a wild mix between u and o.  (Before somebody gets too clever:   
     French "Roumanie" falls into the u camp for this purpose.)   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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