[WikiEN-l] River names Oder/Odra and Neisse/Nysa

Wed Feb 19 19:45:23 UTC 2003

As I said yesterday, I doubt that there are many English speakers who ever heard of Odra.
Zoe
 Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:Mirko Thiessen wrote:
> What do you think about that solution: call it "Oder" in articles
> relating to German regions (Lower Oder Valley National Park), call
> it "Odra" in articles relating to Polish regions (Szczecin).

Is this common practice in English?

> So, my vote is to leave the main article where it is now: "Odra",
> since there are greater portions of the river in Poland.

The location of the river is one factor in determining what we should
call it in English, but not the only factor. We know the name in
Polish, and the name in German, but the question of what the name
"really" is in English seems to be primarily a question of common
usage.

It seems like this river is not widely talked about in English at all
(based on my web searches), so it probably doesn't matter a great deal
either way. :-)

--Jimbo

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