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Rail Map: Europe proudly presents: Slovania!

How do you pronounce Slovenia? I’ve always said Slo-VEEN-ia but regularly hear people (both English speakers and locals) saying Slo-VAIN-ia. The reasons vary. Natives will usually tell me that this more closely resembles the way it’s said in Slovene. I strongly suspect foreigners are subconsciously thinking of “Transylvania” and pronounce it accordingly.

It’s kind of a weird subject. I’ve actually had people (note the plural) get angry with my pronunciation. It’s odd.

Anyway, that just came to mind when I saw this mess of a map, which features the definitely-100%-wrong “Slovania.” The zoomed-in map fixes that mistake, but adds more in its place: displaying “Maribo” (macht Kinder froh?) instead of “Maribor,” not to mention a creative interpretation of where Ljubljana is. For that matter, Maribo, too, seems to have moved from the Austrian border to the Croatian one for no apparent reason.

But how would you pronounce Maribo? Mar-ee-bo? Or Mar-eye-bo?

Life is full of linguistic mysteries.

(Big thanks to Gary in Florida!)

Posted on Monday, September 24, 2007 to Slovenia ¦ Comments (16)