RE: FSE misnomer (what you call where you live)

In message <13jLpi-1oO3JQC@fwd02.sul.t-online.com>
	  KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

[snip]
> 
> And to a native German speaker, 'New Swabian League' sounds plain 
> wrong, as the Swabians are a rather small part of Germanyx and I see
no way a
 
> union of Germans, Austrians etc. could be named after them. Rather
like 
> calling the NAC the 'New Yorkshire Confederacy'. I justify it to my 
> mind with the argument that the negotiations leading to the NSL were
held 
> in the colony city of Neu Schwaben and the League was named after the 
> place.
> 
[snip]
> Karl Heinz
>

Hmm... 'New Yorkshire Confederacy' - sounds like a good idea to me :-)

Charles