laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 1 month agoConstantinople sounds way cooler tbhimagemessage-square58linkfedilinkarrow-up1319arrow-down123
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minus-squareTartas1995@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoKinda bad comparison. Beijing was always* beijing. Peking was just a european fever dream. On the other hand Constantinople was the offical name and got later renamed Istanbul.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoYeah, i guess it’s just one of those weird Euro things. Just like measuring things in deci/centilitres. When I lived in the UK everyone called it Beijing and measured everything in ml.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoPeking Duck Beijing Duck Chicken Kiev Chicken Kyiv
🫸 Beijing
👉 Peking
Kinda bad comparison.
Beijing was always* beijing. Peking was just a european fever dream.
On the other hand
Constantinople was the offical name and got later renamed Istanbul.
Yeah, i guess it’s just one of those weird Euro things. Just like measuring things in deci/centilitres. When I lived in the UK everyone called it Beijing and measured everything in ml.
Peking DuckBeijing DuckChicken KievChicken Kyivin finnish it’s still “peking”
Same in Czech
The university is still named that way