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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Spelling of city names

I believe Marseilles and Lyons now have a tendancy to be spelled without the "s", thus keeping the same spelling as in French. Is this true? But my biggest question is: why was the "s" added on to the end of the name of each city in the first place?
  

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org/wiki/Lyon#cite_note-0 has one explaination for the -s The spelling Lyons with a final {s} is probably the result of a confusion with the Norman village Lyons-la-Forêt, famous resort of the Anglo-Norman kings such as Henry I of England or Richard the Lionheart. Lyon and Lyons don't share the same etymology : Lyon is a former Lugdunum and Lyons a former *Licontio

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  • org/wiki/Lyon#cite_note-0 has one explaination for the -s The spelling Lyons with a final {s} is probably the result of a confusion with the Norman village Lyons-la-Forêt, famous resort of the Anglo-Norman kings such as Henry I of England or Richard the Lionheart.
  • Lyon and Lyons don't share the same etymology : Lyon is a former Lugdunum and Lyons a former *Licontio
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Lyons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon#cite_note-0has one explaination for the -s

The spelling Lyons with a final {s} is probably the result of a confusion with the Norman village Lyons-la-Forêt, famous resort of the Anglo-Norman kings such as Henry I of England or Richard the Lionheart.
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