[WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting to ignore MoS, NCs for language reasons.
Peter Mackay
peter.mackay at bigpond.com
Fri Nov 18 10:04:18 UTC 2005
> -----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)
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