Talk:Besançon
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[edit] Origin of the name of Besançon
Since few days somebody is adding in the articles of Besançon a reference to the city of Busan, in Korea. This person explain that Besançon, is pronunce as Busan-son, so that Besançon would be the daughter city of Besançon... This is completely false. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, please don't put in it personnal thoughts or impressions. It's not because it sounds like Busan's son that it's correct. The origin of the name of Besançon comes from VESONTIO, the name of the city in the Ancient era, when it was a gallo-roman metropolis. During the fouth century, a B replaced the V of Vesontio, and the name of the city becam Besontio or Bisontion, and then several transformations took place untill 1243 when th name took his definitive form of Besançon. SO, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BUSAN!!!!!!!!! Wikipedrox
[edit] Motto
'Utinam' doesn't appear to mean 'God wills it.' It just means 'would that', 'if only' etc. etc. 'Deus Vult' would mean 'God wills it', and indeed, that's far more common.
CharlieRCD (talk) 10:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
