Don't mean to offend...I've seen both used, and Myanmar on websites
by Merriam-Webster, Wikipedia, the World Health Organization, the
Lonely Planet travel guide, as well as the USMA's own site. Since
some people use one name and others another, it sounds like both
names need to be mentioned so that both groups of people will
understand what I am talking about.
On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Carleton MacDonald wrote:
The country is still known as Burma. The name change was done by a
military
dictatorship after they invalidated a popular election in 1990 (in
which
Aung San Suu Kyi was overwhelmingly elected as leader of the
country; the
junta has had her in and out of house arrest ever since). Since this
military junta is widely viewed as illegitimate, any action on
their part,
including their action to change the name of the country, is also
viewed as
illegitimate.
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/aboutburma/aung_san_suu_kyi.htm
Carleton
(sorry for getting off topic a bit but this really burns me)
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Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:48
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:35247] Re: liberia and myanmar
Thank you for your responses. To clarify some confusion regarding the
question, I mean to ask what Phil suggested--which countries are not
primarily using the metric system--since officially, the metric
system has been legal in the U.S. in 1866. I have seen the links
included in the emails, and what I am looking for is the organization
that did the survey to say only three countries are not yet
predominantly metric (by the way Myanmar is in Southeast Asia near
Thailand, formerly known as Burma). The survey results are quoted
often, but the source remains a mystery to me...Any ideas?
