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

[Ray Saintonge]

Delirium wrote:

> Peter Mackay wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Well, there are over 2,200 results on google news for "Ivory Coast".  
> It may not be widely discussed in bar conversations, but anyone who's 
> been reading the news has seen it come up quite a bit in the past few 
> years. 

Ask 100 people on the street to name as many African countries as they 
can, and how many would include the Ivory Coast under either name?

Ec