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The name was given during the brief occupation by Germany. In old German, certain letters of the alphabet have an implicit "n" added before it. "G" is one of them. I don't know enough German to identify the others.

Um, no, the samoan language pronounces it that way. American Samoa was never occupied by the Germans. Even when they bombed Pearl Harbor.

163 posted on 09/29/2009 2:13:10 PM PDT by Experiment 6-2-6 (Admn Mods: tiny, malicious things that glare and gibber from dark corners.They have pins and dolls..)

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The GERMANS bombed Pearl Harbor?

165 posted on 09/29/2009 2:15:43 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)

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Um, no, the samoan language pronounces it that way. American Samoa was never occupied by the Germans.

Never said it was. Influenced is not the same as occupied.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 resulted in the act that formally partitioned the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory and was the culmination of years of civil war among Samoan factions and of rivalry between the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom at the brink of war. Forerunners to the Tripartite Convention of 1899 were the Washington Conference of 1887, the Treaty of Berlin of 1889 and the Anglo-German Agreement on Samoa of 1899.

Just saying.

169 posted on 09/29/2009 5:10:02 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)

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