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    lugnet.local.yisrael —Dan Boger
   umm.... is there a reason why Israel is misspelled? I was looking for it to join, and missed it - it never occured to me to look for it under "Y". any chance it could be corrected? :) Dan (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        "Yisra`el" vs. "Israel" —Todd Lehman
   Dan, I'm assuming below that you meant lugnet.loc.il, because there is no group lugnet.local.yisrael... (...) On the entry page (URL) for lugnet.loc.il, it shows lugnet.loc.il- Yisra`el (Israel) My world atlas showed "Yisra`el" as the correct (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
   
        Re: "Yisra`el" vs. "Israel" —Shiri Dori
     (...) Yeah, that's what he meant :P (...) It's not that it's incorrect. That _is_ how Israelis say the name of the country - in Hebrew. However, we never write it like that in English. The common and acceptable English spelling is Israel. This is (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
   
        Re: "Yisra`el" vs. "Israel" —Dan Boger
   (...) errr... yes, sorry :) (...) well, you would never find it spelled like that in Israel, and rarly it would even be pronounced like that. Most cases (except people that take care to pronounce things exactly like they're supposed to be) it would (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
 

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