[Misc] Names which change

[Neville's Breakfast]

So, to follow Anthony H Wilson, Camp Nooo and Ur-an-us …A E K Athens are now called Icke Athens.

Any other “rebrands” you can think of?

Yeah, I winced every time they said it. A bit too ‘David’ for my liking.

 

[AK74]

FFS Murray to Judas to Glenn

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Turkey .... Turkiye
Siam ......Thailand
Burma ......Myanmar
Bombay ......Mumbai
Calcutta......Kolkata
Etc

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

England’s Michael Keane

 

[Brovion]

Places in Wales, like Snowdonia. And I don't want to come over as a Gammony Boomer Snowflake, but I can't remember any of the new Welsh names. And I did SO well in remembering the new Indian place names and that Mount Everest is actually Chomolungma, although that is easier to pronounce (and thus remember) than the new Welsh names.

Oh and AEK Athens have always been 'Ike'. My brother's son-in-law is Greek and a fan and told us, so I was actually ahead of the curve on that. It's a bit like pronouncing Ajax Amsterdam as 'I-ax' (which we all do I'm sure) as opposed to 'Ay-jax' (which I certainly did when I was a boy in the 1960s/70s).

And one more thing: I know that Sri Lanka used to be Ceylon and that Thailand used to be Siam - but I never knew Iceland used to be called Beejams.

 

[Brovion]

You mean scone, shirley?

"I asked the girl in dulcet tone,
'Please bring me a buttered scone.'
The silly thing has only gone,
And brought to me a buttered scone."

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Snickers

I thought it was funny too.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Turkey .... Turkiye
Siam ......Thailand
Burma ......Myanmar
Bombay ......Mumbai
Calcutta......Kolkata
Etc

I prefer all the old names. Bring back the Empire.

 

[Chicken Run]

No sooner do us old timers finally remember not to call it Czechoslovakia any more than the Czech Republic changes its name to Czechia. Sake!

Talking of which I wonder where Dave in Prada is?

 

[Chicken Run]

I prefer all the old names. Bring back the Empire.

Ceylon sounded better, quite like Eastern Pakistan too!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Talking of which I wonder where Dave in Prada is?

Moved to France apparently. Now likes to be known as Daveed in Paree

 

[Giraffe]

It's my pet hate. I don't get for example why countries aren't all the same name to everyone else. Why don't we call Germany Deuthschland?

The Kiev thing literally makes no sense. Just cos they got invaded we suddenly decided to make the effort to pronounce it correctly. What? I still say it the old way when I'm having Chicken Kiev. Some things can't be changed.

 

[Giraffe]

And don't get me started on Hyundai!

 

[Giraffe]

Turkey .... Turkiye
Siam ......Thailand
Burma ......Myanmar
Bombay ......Mumbai
Calcutta......Kolkata
Etc

Why just why?!!

 

[GoingUp]

I noticed this week that Red Star Belgrade are now FK Crvena Zvezda.

 

[Acker79]

"I asked the girl in dulcet tone,
'Please bring me a buttered scone.'
The silly thing has only gone,
And brought to me a buttered scone."

Well, that doesn't rhyme at all.

 

[Giraffe]

Well, that doesn't rhyme at all.

Apparently based on his tweets, Bard doesn't care.

 

[Reagulls]

Snickers

I worked in a shop in Hurstpierpoint when I was 16 around the time Marathon changed to Snickers, my collegue and I thought it funny at the time to use the price stickers to cover the "S", we were told off by our supervisor eventually.

it also ruined one of my childhood jokes too.....
did you hear about the man who entered a marathon?

 

[KZNSeagull]

Yogurt to Yohgurt

 

[Algernon]

Ridiculous.
"Prince" Charles changes his name to"King" Charles.
Prince Andrew, Duke of York -Filthy Paedo associating sex pest.