The U.S Senate on Thursday passed military spending authorization legislation that included a newly amended version of the BURMA Act - the Burma Unified Through Rigorous Military Accountability Act of ...
Language is slippery, often subversive. When Burma became Myanmar in 1989, this was the ruling junta’s most overt disavowal of the colonial past. In striking out Britain’s name for the nation, the ...
Language Log notes that Apple's Dictionary program (v. 1.02 running in Tiger) gave an interesting pronunciation for "Myanmar:" It's pronounced "Burma." I would tend to think this is an accident, but ...
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