Posted on 02/19/2023 12:58:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
Why is Turkey now "Türkiye" and what does it matter? This linguistics expert sheds insight.
Is Türkiye’s recent spelling change about being more authentically Turkish? Or is there more to the story?
In June 2022, the United Nations agreed to change the spelling of the country known in the English-speaking world as Turkey to Türkiye, heeding a request by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In January, the United States State Department also agreed to adopt the requested change in its written communications.
A number of news outlets have reported that Türkiye has changed its name, but that’s not really true - Turks have called their country Türkiye since 1923, when Türkiye became the successor state to the Ottoman Empire.
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They get tired of being asked to say “Gobble Gobble”?
They can spell the name however they like in Turkish. In English, it’s “Turkey”. My Chicken Kiev will remain Chicken Kiev.
And I want to spell Istanbul, Constantinople.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can’t say
People just liked it better that way
So, take me back to Constantinople
No, you can’t go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
Because TURKEY is a bird we in the West behead, cook and eat on holidays.
Hits a little too close to home.
Then we should start calling Poland, “Polska”, or Germany “Deutschland”.
Why do we say Myanmar and Cote d’Ivoire, Mumbai and Yangon, but not Deutschland and España?
Yep, I teed that one up.
Jive türkiye . . .
Unless it becomes Chicken nuke hole.
Don’t forget about calling Wales “Cymru” and Scotland “Alba”.
Or Croatia “Hrvatska”.
It is Turkey.
The country that is still not housebroken.
Then in ten years they’ll demand us call it “The Ottoman Empire”.
And Rome, Roma
On a related note I spell Russia with four letters: “USSR”
I guess the “Butterball” thing got out of hand.
5.56mm
We don’t do umlauts.
I believe New Amsterdam was changed to New York in honor of the Duke of York at that time who was the future James 7th of Scotland, and James the 2nd of England.
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