Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Håkan, I think the encyclopedia refers to it as "inexact" because if you take the language family to be the determining factor, then Scandinavia should consist of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden but certainly not Finland. On the other hand, no Icelanders I have ever met referred to themselves as Scandinavians, while most of the Finns I know do. Nathan Håkan Dennersten wrote: > Nowadays Denmark is considered to be in the Scandinavian countries and > "sometimes" Finland according to the Swedish Encyclopedia. The don't > explain why, but they say that the word is "inexact". > > > /HD > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html