Mould-on-the-Wold

[Steve]

--- "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> ---  "Debi" <joeydebs@> wrote:
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> > 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!).
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> zanooda:
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> 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 :-).
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> > Debi wrote:
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> > Can you remember what they translated it to?
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> zanooda:
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> 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 :-).
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bboyminn: 

Unless I'm mistaken, Wiltshire is where Stonehenge, and several other 'henges', are. Yes, there is actually more than one 'henge'. Woodhenge comes to mind. Also the location of many giant Chalk drawings, such as the Cherhill White Horse. 

Just a bit of trivia.

Steve/bboyminn