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Group: alt.fan.ceciladams · Group Profile
Author: StanStan Date: May 11, 2008 11:16
>> Why does every mention of Myanmar on radio/TV have to add "formerly
>> Burma" to the text. Does anyone say, "formerly British Honduras" or
>> "formerly Ceylon" or "formerly Hot Springs, New Mexico"? Does the
>> stewardess say, "Welcome to New York (formerly New Amsterdam) Kennedy
>> airport, formerly, Idlewild"?
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>> Anyone that, by now, doesn't know Myanmar's former name probably
>> doesn't care.
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> If they hadn't told me Myanmar was formerly Burma, I'd have thought it
> was a sandwich spread.
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> That sort of thing is necessary whenever some yoyo seizes control of a
> country
> and changes the name without telling anyone.
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> Don
The name was changed in 1989. Anybody who watches Seinfeld knows about
the change.
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"I feel the warmth of the camaraderie that comes with having odd and
meaningless things in common." Dana Carpender
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