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In response to "I've loved it. They've been putting these guys through the ringer." by Reagen

has the city they ended in last night always had that name or has it changed recently? or is it a different city altogether?

Posted by Beaker (aka anniebecca) Mar 28 '11, 09:51

Calcutta was always the way i thought it was spelled...different city?

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There's been a whole thing about cities returning to their "Indian" names - Reagen Mar 28, 09:52 4
- Yep - it's as much about claiming the name in a regional language (like Bengali, or Telugu), rather than a national one like Hindi. -- nm - Roger More Mar 28, 09:55 3
  - coupled with lingering anti-colonialist sentiment, I'd wager, since it was the Brits who f*cked up the spelling in the first place. -- nm - znufrii Mar 28, 09:56 2
    - Let's just say that spelling was done in a fluid environment :) And sounds were spelt differently in different parts of Britain -- nm - Roger More Mar 28, 10:00
    - hey, some of it is the fault of the Portuguese. -- nm - Reagen Mar 28, 09:57
It modified its name in the 1990s. - Roger More Mar 28, 09:52 4
- that far back? I though it was *slightly* more recent... - znufrii Mar 28, 09:55 2
  - 2001, according to wiki. China is different - they didn't rename anything,but codified how the entire language was spelt in the Roman alphabet. -- nm - Roger More Mar 28, 09:58 1
    - thx -- nm - znufrii Mar 28, 10:03
- huh, I knew the last two. Interesting. Thanks. -- nm - Beaker Mar 28, 09:53

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