Comments on: Pretoria Changes Name to Tshwane

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 27 May 2005 12:41:52 +0000

I vote we pronounce "Tschwane" as "Pretoria."

Gay Orbit » American Ethnocentrism — Fri, 27 May 2005 00:04:40 +0000

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Michael — Thu, 26 May 2005 23:51:40 +0000

Or, maybe Tschwane is perfectly easy to pronounce and South Africans don't give a shit about what Americans think about its pronouncibility.

jwbrown1969 — Thu, 26 May 2005 20:09:48 +0000

I don't care what they name their capital, but is it too much to ask that it be pronounceable.