Tuesday 22 May 2007

But did they remember the "h" in Pittsburgh?

The Khaleej Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) report that organizations in Bangalore threatened to stage a protest in front of the local office of Oxford Press Union tomorrow and burn copies of the latest edition of the Concise Dictionary of World Place Names. The reason is that there are a few glaring errors about Bangalore and the state of Karnataka, including mistakenly identifying the language spoken in Bangalore as Bengali - the language spoken in Bangalore is actually Kannada. Oxford University Press has suspended publication of the dictionary and apologized for the errors.

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