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Blackflag
By Blackflag | Dec 16 2014 10:07 PM
Cote d'Voire
Ivory Coast, lol
nzlockie
By nzlockie | Dec 17 2014 3:03 AM
Blackflag: Used to be called Ivory Coast. Now you'll find its called Cote d'Ivoire by everyone.
Blackflag
By Blackflag | Dec 17 2014 7:10 AM
nzlockie: Huh, I've always been taught Ivory Coast. I don't believe everyone uses Cote D'Voire over Ivory Coast.
I remember taking a Geography majors test and getting a question wrong because it was asking for Cote D'Voire.
nzlockie
By nzlockie | Dec 17 2014 11:32 AM
Blackflag: Ivory coast got kicked out maybe 20 years ago. You will struggle to find any official reference to that term any more. UN, Olympics, Miss World... Etc
Dassault Papillon
By Dassault Papillon | Dec 17 2014 1:39 PM
nzlockie: Cote D'Ivoire did it; so why not every other country out there?
Joepbr
By Joepbr | Dec 27 2014 4:51 PM
Dassault Papillon: I don't think there is any reason to call countries in their own native language, besides, I doubt that anyone who doesn't have a basic knowledge of Chinese could correctly pronounce "Zhongguo", and the same applies to many countries.

But I believe that people should be kept up to date on the spelling of some names. Brazil isn't spelled with a "z" in Portuguese since the 1943 orthographic reform.
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