From: Mark Odegard
Message: 3547
Date: 2000-09-03
From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Mark, it may be spelt Dniester, Dn(i)estr or Dnister" but not "Dneister"!
And I think I even know better. Outside of English, /ei/ is consistently the vowel in 'buy', with /ie/ representing that in 'be'. It's not the nigh-stir, but the knee-stir.It's also difficult to keep the Dniester and Dnieper clear in one's head. It's rather much the same confusion the ancients seem to have had with the lower Danube Ister and that little river that gives Istria (in Crotia, at the head of the Adriatic, near Trieste) its name. The two Moravas, the two Bugs, these are actually quite easy to keep straight.Mark.