(Kiev is now Kyiv)

[Jules Levin]

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that when the Turkish 
government informed the British Foreign
Office that Constantinople should be called 'Istanbul', they were 
informed that the name of the city
in English was and would remain Constantinople.  (Alas, that GB is 
long gone...)
There was a popular song in the US in the 20's about Constantinople > 
Istanbul, etc.
I guess all this discussion is a message to wanna-be-important 
countries that in the big leagues
we don't worry about such trivia as what our cities are called in 
foreign languages.
By the way, is tee-hee the new :-)?
Jules Levin 

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