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== Name of the country, again ==
The current name of the article and of the land is ''Geānlǣht Rīcu American'' (give or take a yogh). That cannot be correct.
The noun ("rīce") is nominative plural. The unwritten "Þæt" makes the adjective weak. Thus it should take an "-an" suffix.
As to the rest, there are choices. ''Rīce'' can have plurals ''rīce'', ''rīciu'' or ''rīcu'' (of which the last has been chosen for the article).
The declension of "America" depends on wheter you take it to be weak masculine, like all normal "-a" nouns, or feminine like the other continents known to OE, [[Asia]], [[Affrica]] and [[Europe]], and like all "-ia" land names. I had assumed a feminine by analogy with [[Affrica]]. If it is a feminine then it takes "-e", not "-an".
On the other hand, America was not known to Old English. ''[[Corsica]]'' bears a Latin name but attracts a "''him''" at one point. ''America'' does not have an "-ia" ending which would definitively be feminine (though neither does ''Affrica''). We have a choice.
Thus we have:
*'''Geānlǣhtan Rīce/Rīciu/Rīcu Americe/American'''
[[User:Hogweard|Hogweard]] 10:37, 19 Solmōnaþ 2009 (UTC)
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