@JaredBusch said in Avast ye scurvy competition we arrrrr taking over yerrrr ship:
@scottalanmiller said in Avast ye scurvy competition we arrrrr taking over yerrrr ship:
Maybe it was a few weeks. It was in the news. Czechia had always been used as a short form name, but it was switched to be the official English language name of the country just recently. It was while I was in Romania that they renamed it, I am pretty sure. For some reason it didn't make much news.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/europe/czech-republic-name-czechia/index.html
And that article clearly states that they are only seeking to change their short name / familiar name to Czechia in the U.N databases. There is nothing in there about a name change for their formal name. It is still the Czech Republic.
When I had seen it reported before, the mention of only being their shorter name was not mentioned and it was reported as the formal name being changed in English (e.g. they said "Czech Republic changed to Czechia."