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There is a vague movement to adopt countries preferred names and pronunciation. It's fairly patchy ultimately. Beijing/Peking, Mumbai/Bombay, Kyiv/Kiev, Czech

There is a vague movement to adopt countries preferred names and pronunciation. It's fairly patchy ultimately. Beijing/Peking, Mumbai/Bombay, Kyiv/Kiev, Czechia/Czech Republic. Foods seem unaffected funnily enough Peking Duck, Bombay Mix, Chicken Kiev.

ch4s3 3y ago
Not that it's a big deal, but Türkiye uses the ü, and autocorrect and spell checkers don't seem to have made the switch yet so it does require some extra effort to type or copy paste. It seem like the use of Mumbai hasn't even been universally adopted in India, so I'd expect Türkiye to take some time.
- tgv 3y ago
  > spell checkers don't seem to have made the switch Right click > Add to dictionary
  - ch4s3 3y ago
    Yeah, sure that works in the specific machine I happen to be using but this doesn't come up enough for me to remember to do it everywhere.
readthenotes1 3y ago
Iirc, Mumbai,Bangalaru, etc. were changes to decolonize, not to change the name foreigners called it as much as to change the name resonance called it.