Talk:Midland Canal

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[edit] Name?

Does this canal really get called the "Midland" in English? I've never heard anything but the German name, "Mittellandkanal". Googling, I see the Columbia Encyclopedia uses "Midland Canal", but other hits are to webpages relating to canals in the English Midlands.
—wwoods 01:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

To get rid of the English Midlands and of German language hits, I added the search term Saxony (for Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, two of the states it runs through). The results are Mittellandkanal 1120 and Midland Canal 428. I also prefer Mittellandkanal (because I associate Midland more with Birmingham than with this canal), but I'm not a native speaker (neither English nor German). Markussep ^Talk 16:12, 10 July 2007 (UTC)