On 11/13/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/13/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
[[Myanmar]] with Burma a redirect.
Another utterly ridiculous situation. The country has had a perfectly
good name in English for some centuries now. Let's have done with it,
move Munich to München, Venice to Venezia, Milan to Milano, Poland to
Polska, and Austria to Österreich. Who needs English, anyway?
Perhaps a more useful example would be moving [[United Kingdom]] to
[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] -- certainly
the country's official name, if not its common name. On the other
hand, I happen to think of the relevant African country as Côte
d'Ivore. I think most news sources (the ones I read, anyway, TIME and
the Guardian/Observer) do the same. The BBC might as well. That, to
me, is its natural name. (The fact that I am 16 may not be
irrelevant.)
Sam