On 1 Mar 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
| "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > It's interesting how Israelis take for granted that we should be called
| > "Israeli" and not "Israelian".
|
| I rather suspect that Anglo-Saxons decided that. The French, as usual,
| beg to differ.
|
| > If you think about it for a moment, you'll
| > see that most nationalities end with "an", although there are a lot of
| > weird cases (compare canadIAN, americAN, peruVIAN, french, german, englISH,
| > JapanESE, etc.), but no nationality ends with an "i" like "Israeli"
| > does.
|
| Yemeni, Saudi, Iraqi, Pakistani. Are we going to make geographical
| or ethnic speculations?
|
that the hebrew names?
in english pakistanian iraqian .....
Ely
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