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vjerancrnjak
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The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'
If you remove diacritics its completely valid BCS and same meaning.
HPsquared
3 days ago
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BCS have a word for mermaid/siren though (sirena) so it's Mala Sirena. Which makes sense with the sea right there and proximity to Greece so Homeric legends about sirens will presumably be in the culture.
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vjerancrnjak
3 days ago
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There's a nice song by Daleka Obala - Morska Vila. That's a first ring.
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HPsquared
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Makes sense. Maybe it's a bit like how informal English tends to use Germanic rather than Latin derivations?
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