Spelling insanity

Don’t get me wrong — I believe in spelling things correctly. I may have the occasional typo of misspelling in this blog, but that’s more a result of laziness than ignorance.

Still, this is borderline insane. Korea wants their name changed to “Corea” so that they appear before Japan in the dictionary, basically.

In other news, the state of Wyoming is accepting a buyout offer from the American Automobile Association so that they can change their state name to AAA/Wyoming and be ahead of Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, and Arkansas…


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2 Responses to “Spelling insanity”

  1. Joseph J. Finn
    25. September 2003 at 12:37

    Eh, this is one of those weird little things from English speakers that keeps getting attributed to the government of Korea. What do they care? Hell, they call it Chosŏn and Hanguk anyway.

  2. Dan
    30. September 2003 at 09:28

    It’s my understanding Japan forced the name change to Korea way back when. Japan wanted to be first in name for Olympics and the dictionary and now Korea just wants to go back to their old spelling. Then again, I hear it’s just North Korea and South Korea wants nothing to do with it.