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.
Better rename all the articles on French towns, people and business in
France then, too.
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