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myanmar vs burma
With Burma in the news everywhere, Marmy commented about how the news stations were all calling it Burma when they should have been saying Myanmar. I speculated that it was in reaction to the nasty activity, with world news orgs choosing to use a familiar (albeit older) name instead of the one the military leaders changed it to. It seems it's not that simple.
October 01 07
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Comments
This is why Spanish is such a better language, at least phonetically. I didn't even know there was a pronunciation debate. I read the name and pronounced it as I read it (with my Spanish-language underlying). It turns out that, according to the author of that article, I've been pronouncing it exactly as it should be.
Damn difficult English!
Posted by: Maria at October 1, 2007 06:05 PM
Haha, I just saw Gord Martineau on City News. He pronounced it "wrong", MEE-an-mar. haha
Posted by: Maria at October 1, 2007 06:25 PM
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