On 11/19/05, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Tony Sidaway" wrote
The BBC uses it
BBC World Service uses CI:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/worldservice/psims/ScheduleSDT.cgi?Pg=Co&Co...
so that's enough half-truths for the moment.
Excuse me, Charles. I've never, ever claimed that Cote d'Ivoire was not also used as the name of the country by any part of the BBC, and I'm sorry if you thought I was claiming that. If you look more closely at my email you will see that I was simply addressing a false insinuation that the term "Ivory Coast" isn't also in common use.
I accept that the former term is sometimes used by some British sources.
Apologies if my contribution muddied the waters. It was intended solely to counter a blatant falsehood.
You write in another email: "What I object to is the hammering away at ''BBC uses IC'' as if that is an argument."
It's actually a pretty good argument against the false claim that was being advanced by one single person. I don't mistake that single person's false claims for the substance of the argument in favor of using the French name for the country instead of the English one.