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

[Peter Mackay]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Tom Cadden

> You still don't get it. The only issue is 'is a name widely 
> used in English?' Those names are now widely used. If Ivory 
> Coast was ever to become widely known to English users as 
> Cote d'Ivoire rather than Ivory Coast...

I'm having difficulty with the notion that the name "Ivory Coast" could
possibly be described as "widely used" or "widely known".

With a straight face, that is.

Peter (Skyring)