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[Satisfaction at having hooked one's fish emoticon] Oh!
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Shona has his own emoticon? And you hooked it?
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Aoraki/Mt Cook
But I always do leap on new names I learn. You can accuse me of ignorance rather than inconsistency if I get them wrong. It's a great burden on the memory, I can tell you. The Grampians in Victoria are now Gariwerd, and Mt Kosciusko is now Mt Kosciuszko. Durban is now eThekwini and Pretoria is Tshwane -- or at least these are the municipalities. The Republic of Kyrgyzstan became the Kyrgyz Republic in May 1993. The constitution of Maldives says the official name is Republic of Maldives but goes on and explicitly refers to it as the Maldives and as State of the Maldives. Saint Lucia announced that it would always use the spelling Saint, not St, but the stamps continue to use St. I've got notebooks full of this stuff!
What's written on Aotearoa stamps these days?
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NicholasW begs: What's written on Aotearoa stamps these days?
"New Zealand". Whadelse?
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Shona has his own emoticon? And you hooked it?, line and sinker. 
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Then I can say Mt Cook by itself!
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>The Brits are the major visitors to Ibiza and provide the lifeblood (monetarily) of the community. Are they arrogant, or just doing the right thing, when they pronounce the name Eye-beetha?
We must have a thing about Spanish Islands. I heard a travel company marketing person being grilled on the radio recently. The company had two offshoots, each taking visitors to a neighbour of Ibiza. In one brochure, the name Majorca was used. In the other, the name Mallorca was used. Both sets of visitors were being offered holidays on the same island - guess which holidays were more expensive?
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Durban is now eThekwini and Pretoria is Tshwane -- or at least these are the municipalities
Oh my god is that true? It's so hard to keep up with names in SA these days, I must be falling behind.
Actually I'm sure it is just the municipality. Or what is these days rather portentously called "the Greater Metropole of ...) or some such bureaucratise. Since each of these merged several municipalities (with a mix of Eurocentric and Afrocentric names) I suppose they had a pretty tricky naming problem; someone was bound to be offended.
I notice a lot of name changes around the world have been sparked by political events, some shamefully partisan and others more defensible (if I may be allowed to be so judgmental). By and large I must say I've been quite impressed at how successful we've been in adapting to to the new, more PC, names in SA. (Nobody regrets the end of the "Hendrik Verwoerd Dam". Well, almost nobody.)
Now I wish we could get rid of all the street names that honour obscure, minor politicians whose claim to fame, or source of influence, nobody can recall any longer. It's embarrassing to live in such a street and hell to get foreigners to spell them even vaguely correctly. I think there should be a rule about naming anything after anyone who hasn't been dead for 10 years. [emoticon for people who can't think up clever emoticons]
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NicholasW exultantly declared Then I can say Mt Cook by itself!
[triumphant Daffy Duck finger raised in air emoticon]Nope, sorry, there ain't so such place no more.  If you do find a postage stamp with that particluarly fragile lump of rock on it, said rock will be given its official legal designation - Aoraki/Mt. Cook. The renaming was a major part of a compensation deal reached between the Crown and Ngai Tahu, the Maori iwi whose traditional lands include over 80% of the South Island and whose chairman has the wonderfully traditional Maori surname of O'Regan. As much fun as this little stirring excercise has been, Nicholas, I have to confess that I feel as you do on this matter. I'm a Yangon, Myanmar sort of guy myself. I love the challenge of trying to get it right, even though, as an amateur, I almost certainly mutilate them in a way that adepts such as yourself would cringe at. At least I drive through Paraparaumu on my to Wellington, not Paraparam. That's gotta be worth summat, eh, CapK? 
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MaxQ supplies: its official legal designation - Aoraki/Mt. Cook
Do you pronounce the /? Is it slash, virgule or what?
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