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<div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><b>Rosina,</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><b>My dictionary confirms that
Islandia = Iceland and Letonia = Latvia.</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><b>Given that eslovaco and esloveno
are the Spanish for the Slovak and Slovene/Slovenian languages, the
other queries on your list are probably Eslovaquia = Slovakia and
Eslovenia = Slovenia. The Faroe Islands are (I think) constitutionally
part of Denmark but are semi-independent.</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><b>Although I do not imagine for an
instant that you would wish to cause upset feelings, the
phrase </b></font></div>
<div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><b>'a whole lot of new European
countries with names reminiscent of those mentioned in Lehar's
"The Merry Widow" and Romberg's "The Student
Prince"'</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><b>is likely to do that. My friends in
Slovenia - a politically separate country for a few years after
1815, then not again until 1990; but a place which has considered
itself separate for over a century - would I know be, variously,
annoyed, saddened, embarrassed.</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><b>I repeat: I accepted your remark as
a humorous one. However, I know that there are people with thin skins
- especially the Slovenes/Slovenians, who are still suffering
psychologically from having been part of Yugoslavia for so long. When
foreign dignitaries confuse Slovenia and Slovakia, they
cringe.</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><b>Incidentally, there are enough
British Catholics for us to be pretty certain that there would have
been English, Scottish and even Welsh pilgrims who requested the
document. I think a clerical error is likely.</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><b>And the Beatitudes poem - in both
the original (as far as my newly-acquired Spanish can tell) and your
translation - was really moving. Thankyou!</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><b>Tom</b></font></div>
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