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What do you think of translated names in books?
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In Dutch, "The Shire" is translated as "De Gouw". I wonder how they came by that name.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouw_(Germaans
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It's actually a pretty good translation for 'Shire'.
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