More generally, on reflection, I find any attempt of other people to change words which were previously perfectly acceptable very irritating. Whether its products, names of pubs, names of cities, ren… (View Post)

I don't mind about Czechia and Peking, because I think those were correctings of misunderstandings. The i already has a dot! Why does it need another? What does that do? What language is that fr… (View Post)

And when I address Turks in Turkish, I would have no problem calling it Turkiye. But I don't see why I should have to use a Turkish word in conversations with other English speakers. What harm w… (View Post)

Jesus, will people stop calling it Turkiye. We don't suddenly have to change the English spelling for Germany or Spain. That u with an umlaut thing doesn't exist in English. I bet the Turks… (View Post)

Not just a London thing. Happens on the Metrolink. Except there are no barriers on the Met, so it doesn't appear in that way; instead, you get, for example, what I saw yesterday: when the (spora… (View Post)