Call us Czechia

[DeniseDenise]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/europe/czech-republic-name-czechia/index.html



because that's not going to have people thinking they are Chechnya.....

 

[LizaSymonenko]

We've already been calling it Chechia.  Чехія. 

 

[DeniseDenise]

We've already been calling it Chechia.  Чехія. 

yes...but you are unlikely to confuse it with Chechnya.....like the vast majority of americans

 

[Arachne]

We've already been calling it Chechia.  Чехія. 

So have we. Τσεχία.

Americans have a chance to learn something from this, though I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Alpo]

We call it as Tsekki. Adding "a" to the end would sound quite silly. And a little feminine.

 

[Mor Ephrem]

We've already been calling it Chechia.  Чехія. 

yes...but you are unlikely to confuse it with Chechnya.....like the vast majority of americans

As if we know what either of those things are.

 

[rakovsky]

Chehia

 

[Cyrillic]

Bring back Bohemia.

We call it as Tsekki. Adding "a" to the end would sound quite silly. And a little feminine.

We call it Tsjechië.

 

[RaphaCam]

"Tchéquia" would sound like a terrible curse word in Portuguese. "Tcheca" already does, but using always as an adjective kind of erases the similarity.

 

[Luke]

Chehia

Gesundheit!

 

[biro]

Do people have to get new passports now?

 

[Alpo]

Bring back Bohemia.

Wasn't that just a part of present Czechh Republic?

 

[rakovsky]

Chehia

Gesundheit!

Sneezing in different languages:

https://www.listenandlearnusa.com/language-trivias/sneezes-around-the-world


Chihau in Russian is sneeze

 

[LenInSebastopol]

We've already been calling it Chechia.  Чехія. 

So have we. Τσεχία.

Americans have a chance to learn something from this, though I'm not holding my breath.

Well, I don't.....hold your breath that is.

 

[Dominika]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/europe/czech-republic-name-czechia/index.html



because that's not going to have people thinking they are Chechnya.....

Last Thurday at the lecture of Arabic texts we had one about footballplayer and in the part about Edin Dzheko was written that he moved to الشيشان (Chechenya, but in fact it was Czechia) and was playing in FK تبليسي (Tibilis, so Georgian capital, instead of "Teplice" - a town in Czechia). The text was from Al-Jazeera