Talk:Moscou, Ghent

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"Moscou" with a "c" is not a French spelling (and neither was this neighbourhood called that way to celebrate the French "victory" at the Battle of Borodino) because this area got its name during the Dutch period!

So why was it not changed into "MosKou" like normally happened in the Dutch language? Of course, the various Dutch spelling reforms also changed the spelling in Dutch of the Dutch names of foreign place names. Famously, "Vatikaan" became "Vaticaan". "Moscou" (in Russia) became "Moskou".

In the 1950s, a Belgian place name commission changed the official spelling of Flemish place names in the Flemish part of Belgium. They turned Craynhem into Kraainem, for instance. However, they did not concern themselves with the spelling of place names of what they called lieu-dits, so places which were not independent communes kept their spelling - actually it was left to the independent communes who governed these places to decide whether to change the spelling of these places. That spelling commission also set up a permanent commission to advise on such spellings and on the spelling of newly created place names. Somewhere, somehow, the Flemish regional government turned that advisory capacity into an imperative one.

In this case, the name "Moscou" was also used in street and square names (Moscouviaduct for instance), so Gentbrugge decided not to change the spelling. Whether Gent would ever want to change the spelling now, is probably a moot point since that "advisory" council would probably rule against it anyway (for one thing, those "Moscows" in the Netherlands are also spelled with a c).--Paul Pieniezny (talk) 15:56, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * According to a recent article in De Morgen, the permanent commission for dialectology and the spelling of street names and hamlets has no imperative powers. It is even on a (federal) list for possible extinction. I seem to have been mistaken OR this both a federal and a Flemish one. --Paul Pieniezny (talk) 16:00, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

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