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Some countries whose endonyms are not like their English exonyms (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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You're right. My fault, I looked it up and don't know where that came from but the evidence doesn't seem to exist at all and I'm not sure why I remembered that as being a thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Oh, phew! I thought I was about to get bombarded by hate replies from Black Israelites or something (no relation to the actual country). Thanks for the grace.