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author of My Father Left Me Ireland. Senior Writer, National Review. Visiting Fellow for the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies division at AEI.

Joined November 2007

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    Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 28 Sep 2020

    Grateful for Peter Hitchens tilting against the replacement of English names for places with political constructions. https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/09/the-beijing-kowtow-and-the-mumbai-jumbai-cringe-more-on-the-strange-renaming-of-cities-.html …

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      2. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 28 Sep 2020

        Though I find I always make the opposite mistake. Will never forget the mockings I've gotten for frenchifying the pronunciation of LeGrange NY or Calais Maine.

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      3. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 28 Sep 2020

        This is also one place where Irish disappoints language, since it prioritizes cities to which Irish people emigrated. There's no Irish for Albuquerque. But there is for Bostún and Nua-Eabhrac.

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      2. Richard Delevan‏ @rdelevan 28 Sep 2020
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        So we’re good sticking with Londonderry in that case. My Derry friends will indeed be chuffed.

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      3. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 28 Sep 2020
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        LOL. As for my House we only refer to it as Derry and "The Town I Loved So Well"

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      1. Andre Kenji de Sousa 🇧🇷 🌐‏ @andkenbr 28 Sep 2020
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        I think that the idea of translating geographical names is confusing and annoying. Some names are translated, other don't, if you are dealing with five languages you can be dealing with five names of the same city(Pékin, Pequim, Peking?).

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      1. Chris Pope‏ @CPopeHC 28 Sep 2020
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        I wonder whether he refers to Istanbul as Constantinople or Byzantium

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      1. Patrick Harris‏ @BamaExpat 28 Sep 2020
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        Still saying “Leghorn” to own the libs.

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      1. Ryan Thom (is/eius/ei/eum/eo)‏ @rthom741 28 Sep 2020
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        Mr Hitchens is not always right (even I, mildly sympathetic, regret that he has devoted most of his energies of late to anti-mask jeremiads; and let's not even get into the 'martyr-ledger' of the Elizabethan Settlement), but when he is, he is magnificently right.

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