On 11/13/05, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To me, the name of Burma is Myanmar; the natural name
of Zaire is the
Democratic Republic of the Congo; and so on and so forth.
No one uses Zaire though. it wasn't a massively popular name when the
country was called Zaire
And yes, the Ivory Coast is properly Côte
d'Ivoire. Yes, the French beat
the British in naming a country. GET OVER IT.
It's proper name is of no imporance. That isn't what the MOS says.
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geni