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Funny you mentioned the Czech Republic: there is a concerted effort by their hockey federation to be called Czechia and we’re getting blasted with it by Bell Me
by adamomada 2y ago
Funny you mentioned the Czech Republic: there is a concerted effort by their hockey federation to be called Czechia and we’re getting blasted with it by Bell Media in Canada for the past few years
- filoleg 2y agoI wonder if this this region/language dependent. Because I remember that in russian, they’ve been called “Czechia” since at least when Czechoslovakia got broken up, but in english it still seems to be squarely referred to as “Czech Republic”.
- riffraff 2y agoit's definitely language dependent, we used to (mostly) call it "Repubblica Ceca" in Italian but have largely switched to "Cechia" now. Which is weird enough, since Italy is literally called "Repubblica Italiana" on our own passports, but we never call it that.