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May 18, 2003, 15:41
shufitz
Divergent place-names
Elsewhere, Kalleh asks, "What are other regional names for people?"

As a kid, collecting stamps, found that a few country's stamps gave a country-name I'd never heard of -- because the name used by the country itself is entirely dissimilar to the name used in our language. The sole example I can recall in that what we call Hungary, the Hungarians call the Magyar Republic.

Is there a name for this phenomenon of divergent names? Also, what other instances are there, and how did they arise?
May 19, 2003, 11:57
Richard English
And did you notice, perchance, that Britain's stamps did not (and do not) show the name of the country?

Richard English