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People who have been using the old name for years? Yeah, probably—but then I still call sports stadiums by the names I first learned them as, as well as gas st
by mcphage 3y ago
People who have been using the old name for years? Yeah, probably—but then I still call sports stadiums by the names I first learned them as, as well as gas stations. Heck, a few years back I had to deliberately force myself to stop using the term "open apple key".
But people who learn it for the first time will learn the new name, and official maps (etc) will all use the new name, and that's probably good enough.
- tivert 3y agoThe Sears Tower will always be the Sears Tower to me, no matter who the current owner is and who paid them for naming "rights." > But people who learn it for the first time will learn the new name, and official maps (etc) will all use the new name, and that's probably good enough. Not necessarily. If the community isn't invested in the name change, the old name can remain current and persist through natural transmission. In fact, the old name could become established as a way to separate the locals from tourists who learned a name from some outsider source like an official map. Another factor is how good the new name is. "Mount Blue Sky" is actually pretty good, as far as these imposed renamings go. A lot of the time they're totally impractical mouthfuls (e.g. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/federal-government-renames-minnesota-lake-to-manidoons-zaagaigan-zhaawanong/ https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/federal-government-re...) that put contemporary English's orthographic sloppiness on full display.