Re: New pronunciation of Bangalore


PT wrote:
This just in:

The governments of Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, and Serbia
announced that henceforth, the spelling of their respective cities must be
changed from:

Rome to Roma
Munich to München
Prague to Praha
Warsaw to Warszava, and
Belgrade to Beograd

These changes have been made in the interest of clarity, and achieving
parity with the third worlders

Good luck to your Germs. At least the Third-Worlders don't try to
impose diacritics that English-speakers don't notice and wouldn't know
how to type. (Though they are addicted to unpronounced r's.)

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