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==Etymology==
==Etymology==
Hanebrug is ultimately named after one of Charles' cats, Hannah, who had already been enjoying a sort of celebrity status within the friend group; "Hane" is Charles' favorite nickname for her. The original proposal for the city's name was actually ''Haneburg'', but the simple typo stuck, and it was thus officially named ''Hanebrug''. In Hanebrugish, ''Hanebrug'' can be analyzed as a compound of ''Hane'' ("Hannah, Hane") + ''brug'' ("bridge"), making the city's name literally translate to "Hanebridge." The term ''brug'' comes from Proto-Germanic [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/brugj%C7%AD *brugjǭ], with highly irregular schwa-deletion (the expected form would be ''*bruge''). The irregularity of ''brug'' likely has to do with it having originally been a simple mispelling of ''burg'', not a word derived from anything.
Hanebrug is ultimately named after one of Charles' cats, Hannah, who had already been enjoying a sort of celebrity status within the friend group; "Hane" is Charles' favorite nickname for her. The original proposal for the city's name was actually ''Haneburg'', but a typo rendered it ''Hanebrug''; the mistake stuck and the city was thus officially named ''Hanebrug''. In Hanebrugish, ''Hanebrug'' can be analyzed as a compound of ''Hane'' ("Hannah, Hane") + ''brug'' ("bridge"), making the city's name literally translate to "Hanebridge." The term ''brug'' comes from Proto-Germanic [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/brugj%C7%AD *brugjǭ], with highly irregular schwa-deletion (the expected form would be ''*bruge''). The irregularity of ''brug'' likely has to do with it having originally been a mispelling of ''burg'', not a word derived from anything.


==History==
==History==

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