Mould-on-the-Wold

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Debi" <joeydebs at ...> wrote:

> Somehow it wouldn't surprise me if the translators thought 
> "Wiltshire" was invented given the comparative small size
> of the country (though I'd assume they'd check!).


zanooda:

I think it's exactly what happened :-). Everybody knows names like Yorkshire or Hampshire, but Wiltshire... Even my spell check underlines it, LOL! I personally never heard of it before, but I looked it up when I saw this strange translation. That's what the translator should have done :-).


> Debi wrote:

> Can you remember what they translated it to?


zanooda:

IIRC, she (it was a woman:-)) translated "wilt-" into Russian and used the root of the Russian word, and she had "-shire" attached to it :-).