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| (...) Heh heh, I was going to jump in and say thanks as well, and also check if anything new happened. I went to the local groups and searched, out of habit, in the Y section... ;) Just for a second tho'... -Shiri (26 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
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| (...) yay! thanks :) :) Dan (26 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
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| (...) OK, I think I get it now, thanks! :-) If the canonical way to write the name in the ISO-8859-1 character set is Israel and not Yisra`el, then Israel it is! :-) OK, the (URL) page now lists this in the I's instead of the Y's. --Todd (26 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.il)
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