PulkoMandyI have just realized a very annoying thing: the "Austr-" in "Austria" means East, from German Öster. The "Austr-" in "Australia", on the other hand, means South, from Latin Australis.
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Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀@pulkomandy In the Belgian capital, there are three main train stations, one of which is called Bruxelles-Midi and it's not the middle one (which is called Bruxelles-Central), but South. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels-South_railway_station
Since this "Nord-South" connection is actually oriented Nord-East to South-West on the map, it is also used to connect East to West. I grew up in the East, so for me, Midi was the last station, meaning South, but actually gate to the West parts of Belgium. 🙃
meduz'@SylviaFysica @pulkomandy They took the “midi” as in French, meaning “the moment of the day when the sun is the highest”, which in Europe means the South. :p
It’s just that the Belgian railway company never use Brussels South to name it, even in English (they use Bruxelles Midi/Brussels Zuid), although South is apparently the official name in English.
I guess they don’t want people to mix it up with the Brussels-South airport (which is in Charleroi, 50 km South, and where there’s no train).
@SylviaFysica @pulkomandy Talking about Charleroi, they recently renamed the main train station from Charleroi-Sud to Charleroi-Central, despite the fact that the station is at the South of the city center. 🙃 Thou it’s no big deal since the city center is small (you go through it in a 20 min. walk), buuuuut there’s also a Charleroi-Ouest station (Charleroi-West) that is accordingly located West, and only deserved by 1 line if I’m correct.