Re: Translation of city names

Salvatore Volatile wrote:

[Pronounciation of foreign city names]

There's also a bit of a discernible <sp> trend in the other
direction. One good example is "Torino", which seems to have become
at least as common as "Turin" in ordinary English-language texts,
particularly those that specifically refer to the modern city.

This came up quite a bit during the recent Winter Olympics. NBC decided
to go with "Torino", some of the on-line news sites stayed with
"Turin", as did our local newspaper, which ran an article explaining
the decision.



Brian

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