Playing the Name Game
By H. D. S. Greenway | Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | The Boston Globe
“HUGE DEMONSTRATIONS, and the subsequent crackdown by the authorities, have brought Burma barging back into Western consciousness. But what to call it?
In 1989 the Burmese military junta renamed the country Myanmar. The New York Times and the Washington Post dutifully call it Myanmar, but often have a reference somewhere in the story saying ‘formerly Burma.’ The former capital and biggest city will be often be referred to as ‘Yangon, formerly Rangoon,’ but sometimes just ‘Yangon’….”
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