[vi_sextus_vi]

Pedantry:

Tolkien's "Middle-Earth" is itself a "folksy mistranslation"

Closer translation-- "Middle-Yard"

Old English word eardgeard =Earth-Yard

/ ˈæ͜ɑrdˌjæ͜ɑrd / "ardyard" /

https://www.theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=104937

https://english.nsms.ox.ac.uk/oecoursepack/wanderer/notes/no...

[vintermann]

I guess that's where Tolkien's "Arda" comes from as well then.

[card_zero]

Or even garden.

[herewulf]

'garden' came into English via Old French but it's ultimately Frankish (another Germanic language) so 'yard' and 'garden' are cognates. Interestingly they have a close sense.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/garden

[lostlogin]

Thank you. I’m not American and was trying work that out.

I went straight to metric and Middle Metre approximate and is wrong.

[vi_sextus_vi]

"Nasty, British, and Small," screams the Hanging Yards of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_(TV_series)