A little over a year ago, Czech politicians announced that their country would be getting a new name: Czechia. The move aimed to correct a geolinguistic oddity. Many states have a designated long form name, used more formally, and a short-form name that is used in most common situations. The other half of former Czechoslovakia has the long-form […]
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/%3Fp%3D149620
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