On 11/15/05, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Hello Ivory Coast government person, what's
the name of your country in
English?"
"Côte d'Ivoire."
*click*
India has a population of over 1 billion. English is quite widespread.
As a result thier view of what the english language is quite
significant. Ivory Coast has a population of ~17,300,000 and is
francophone. As a result what they think doesn't matter much in terms
of figureing out what name is most commmonly used for the country in
english.
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geni