The parliament of Nauru has agreed to change the South Pacific microstate's name to "Naoero". A referendum will now take place on the constitutional change.
Naoero seems more likely to take off as a new name
I’d agree. Personally I will never ever say “Türkiye” after this exact moment because my keyboard doesn’t use that letter and I had it handy here by copy and pasting yours. But Naoero is easy.
In any case, how do you think Anglos are gonna pronounce Naoero?
Probably the ones who already had reason to talk about it will just keep saying it the way they’re used to, and people hearing about it for the first time will ask chatgpt “how the fuck do i say naoeaoro” and then parrot whatever nonsense it says
An interesting thing is that Naoero’s national anthem, despite being in Naoeroan, actually uses the Anglicized spelling Nauru in the title and lyrics! It’s a good anthem IMO, although some people note that it sounds suspiciously similar to “O Canada” at times. But yeah, I wonder if the name change to Naoero will make them change the anthem, too. It’s a peculiar thing, though, using the Anglicized spelling like that — imagine if the Irish anthem was like “Sinne Fianna Fáil, atá faoi gheall ag IRELAND…”
I’d agree. Personally I will never ever say “Türkiye” after this exact moment because my keyboard doesn’t use that letter and I had it handy here by copy and pasting yours. But Naoero is easy.
Probably the ones who already had reason to talk about it will just keep saying it the way they’re used to, and people hearing about it for the first time will ask chatgpt “how the fuck do i say naoeaoro” and then parrot whatever nonsense it says
An interesting thing is that Naoero’s national anthem, despite being in Naoeroan, actually uses the Anglicized spelling Nauru in the title and lyrics! It’s a good anthem IMO, although some people note that it sounds suspiciously similar to “O Canada” at times. But yeah, I wonder if the name change to Naoero will make them change the anthem, too. It’s a peculiar thing, though, using the Anglicized spelling like that — imagine if the Irish anthem was like “Sinne Fianna Fáil, atá faoi gheall ag IRELAND…”
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