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To: a fool in paradise
I don’t abide by the renaming conventions that are so PC these days

Bombay. Burma. Ivory Coast.

If not, why not Deutschland? Italia? Suomi?

17 posted on 09/01/2014 2:42:30 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Jim Noble

We don’t use Nippon for Japan, etc. and even then, shouldn’t “mumbai” be capitalized in the headline?


40 posted on 09/01/2014 6:52:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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