In article ,
Paul Hyett writes:
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 at 10:31:00, John Hall
wrote in uk.sci.weather :


Pure guesswork: could the Germans have called it "Cynthia" but that
looks funny in French

How so?

I said that it was pure guesswork on my part. But thinking about it,
isn't the "C" at the start of a word always "hard" in French, in which
case "Cynthia" wouldn't work for them?

so the French renamed in Xynthia?

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John Hall
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