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::I apologise that my latin is not good enough to hold a conversation in. It's been ten years since i last did any and I'm trying to learn afresh. Since I have not the ability to write much in the was of sentences, I have been doing housekeeping tasks, reading as I go and learning vocab here and there. Could one of you two please create a link to this discussion so that others may find it easily, and contribute? — [[Usor:Nickshanks|Nicolaus]]
:::I have no idea where to link this for you, sorry. But since you want to do housekeeping tasks, here's one I (for one) would really appreciate: would you mind adding images? Specifically, a lot of the unillustrated articles we have here already have ready-made pictures on the English or other Wikipedias. It's basically just buisy-work to transfer them to la:, but it will make a big difference in the appearence of the articles, if you ask me. --[[Usor:Iustinus|Iustinus]] 16:53 aug 25, 2004 (UTC)
 
== Nottingham ==
 
You write: ''It is given as 'Notingeham' in the latin Magna Carta, rather than 'Notingehamia', the only authoratative source I've found, but it cannot be declined. Nottingham was founded in saxon times c850''. OK, I admit that I invented ''Notingehamia'', but it seemed a likely form. Now, many "barbarian" place-names have both declinable and indliclinable forms depending on the source (and this is especially true in the middle ages). Where possible it is usually best to use the declinable version, simply because it makes for easier parsing. For that purpose I'll check my sources.
#Burke, Edward W., ''A Hand-List of Latin Place Names with their Modern Equivalents'' gives '''Notingamia''', '''Notinghamia''' and '''Nottinghamium'''.
#[[Carolus Egger|Egger, Karl]] ''Lexicon Nominum Locorum'' gives '''Nottingamia'''
#Martin, Charls ''[www.ipa.net/~magreyn2/recint2.htm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Latin Names of Places in Great Britain and Ireland]'' gives '''Nottingamia'''
No other source I have handy gives a listing. You can, I suppose, take your pick of those. It looks like '''Nottingamia''' is the most common though. --[[Usor:Iustinus|Iustinus]] 21:25 aug 25, 2004 (UTC)