Subject: Re: To all: visiting Sankovo-Medvezhe<br/>
Date: Jul 13, 2002 @ 17:05<br/>
Author: granthutchison (&quot;granthutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1003366484"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt; &quot;San&#39;kova&quot; is a typo, by the way.<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Hmmm.<br/>
I&#39;m embarrassed to see from my various files that I&#39;ve been using <br/>
the &quot;o&quot; and &quot;a&quot; endings more or less at random, without ever noticing <br/>
the discrepancy. However, GEOnet does list a number of Russian towns <br/>
ending in -ovo while giving -ova as a variant, and also the other way <br/>
around. (But while there are a number of San&#39;kovos in Russia, there <br/>
are no San&#39;kovas listed.)<br/>
Is there some particular grammatical or spelling rule that makes one <br/>
a better (or indeed the only valid) choice?<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>