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