Poles in Lithuania want their ‘W’

by Ben Atlas on 01.31.2011.9:17pm · 0 comments

Poland and Lithuania are bonded by history, culture and Catholic faith but deeply divided over the letter W:

“Lithuanian language laws still require passports and street signs to be written in the Lithuanian alphabet, which doesn’t have the letters q, w and x and uses diacritical marks on the bottom of letters a, e, i and u… “They should have amended that stupid law a long time ago and let us live in peace. This has gone on for too long,” said 60-year-old Stanislawa Monkewicz, a retired teacher. Her name is Stanislava Monkevic in Lithuanian… In Maisiagala, 57-year-old taxi driver Wilhelm Radzewicz resents being called Vilhelmas Radzevic in his passport”

Bush should move to a polish village in Lithuania, he is going to be popular.

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