[WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting to ignore MoS, NCs for language reasons.

[Ray Saintonge]

Andrew Gray wrote:

>On 13/11/05, charles matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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>>Tony Sidaway wrote
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>>>Consensus cannot be gauged only by voting; the
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>>external sources comprehensively refute the votes for the French name.
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>>That's simplistic here.  I wouldn't be surprised to hear 'Ivory Coast' on
>>BBC radio, because it is much easier to grok.  But I don't imagine the BBC
>>thinks that's the real name of the country.  Diplomats are supposed to be
>>able to hack French pronunciation.  Let's face it, most anglophones can't.
>>However WP is a written medium.
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>My dissertation went for Côte d'Ivoire, and I do hope it counts as an
>English-language source...
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>We also have [[São Tomé and Príncipe]], not "Sao Tome and Principe",
>though that is by far the most common form of the name in English
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...and certainly not St. Thomas and Principe, but we do keep the English 
"and".

We also have Suriname instead of Surinam.

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