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| Thread ID: 114439 | 2010-12-02 23:51:00 | Did anyone here ever call Burma Myanmar? | Snorkbox (15764) | PC World Chat |
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| 1158312 | 2010-12-02 23:51:00 | I sure didn't. But we are going to be allowed to call it Burma officially I hear. home.nzcity.co.nz Go figure. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1158313 | 2010-12-02 23:57:00 | Can't recall the last time I even thought of Burma (maybe when they had the disaster there a while back)... But when I hear "Myanmar", I translate that to "Burma" anyway. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1158314 | 2010-12-03 01:56:00 | What about Rangoon. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1158315 | 2010-12-03 01:58:00 | Only the twits on PC TV news | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1158316 | 2010-12-03 02:25:00 | Nope it's always been Burma to me and my Burmese friends. Growing up in England my parents neighbour had a wife from Burma and they had 3 Burmese/English daughters unfortunately all way too old for me as they are stunningly good looking | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1158317 | 2010-12-03 02:55:00 | Besides anything else a "Myanmar girl" does not have the same ring to it as this:- By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; Rudyard Kipling. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1158318 | 2010-12-03 03:05:00 | And it wouldn't sound right if I referred to my cats as Myanmarese or Myanmarites :) :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1158319 | 2010-12-03 06:15:00 | And it wouldn't sound right if I referred to my cats as Myanmarese or Myanmarites :) :) I also have a Burmese cat and won't call him anything else! LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1158320 | 2010-12-03 06:45:00 | Its Burma for me and Rhodesia for Zimbabwe, still Ceylon. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1158321 | 2010-12-03 07:00:00 | and Siam too?? | Zippity (58) | ||
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