You're saying that as though many contractions aren't misspellings. Like this one.Contraction, actually.
You're saying that as though many contractions aren't misspellings. Like this one.Contraction, actually.
I know that. My point is that most English-speakers don't.Except ofcourse Czechoslovakia is made up of Czechia-Slovakia.
But there's only one "Republic of China".
Don't you mean Chechnya?
You're saying that as though many contractions aren't misspellings. Like this one.
In the English-speaking world, people almost invariably refer to the Czech Republic as, well, the Czech Republic, and rarely Czechia. France is almost invariably referred to as France, even in formal contexts.
Completely missing the point of my question...JEELEN said:But there's only one "Republic of China".
To be fair, I don't think you can take historically established names into consideration. The English-speaking world referred to France as France before it even was a Republic.
However, it is a valid question to ask why they don't call it the Slovak Republic, for example (or some other recent country if there's a reason why that example doesn't work).
Completely missing the point of my question...
Is there something comparable to Shakespeare's sonnets?In what sense were men in the England of Laurence Sterne not "expressive and emotional"?
I've seen more restraint and limited emotions in schoolgirlsOn the other end, the English certainly prided themselves on their restrained and limited emotions during the 17th, and even 16th centuries.
I would love to call the Czech Republic, 'Czechia'. It's more uniform.
However, it's a little hard when few people understand 'Czechia' the first time round and the the Czechs themselves have settled on 'Czech Republic' as their official English representation.
When did Gollum become a Czech diplomat?