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• rishabh@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Austria is probably the English-version of the German name which translates to “Ost”- Eastern + “Reich”-empire.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s an even closer term in English, “reach,” similar in meaning to “realm.”

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tell that to Archie Duke.

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• Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You misspelled Australia.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just learned “Australia” is “Australien” in German. So why isn’t “Austria” “Austrien?”

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    • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t tell them that I told you, but Germans are illiterate. They also V sounds like F and stuff.

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        V sounds like F and F also sounds like F. But I really can’t throw stones from my English glass house considering what a mess my language is.

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    • neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because the english decided that österreich was too hard to pronounce

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