What's In A Name?

[ichkeria]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61671913

This'll send New Judge into meltdown :-)

[ichkeria]

The Russian word for a railway station is a rendering of the London suburb (as was then) of Vauxhall

https://londonist.com/2015/10/vokzal

It isn't quite the case, as we originally were told, that a Russian visitor to London mistook the name OF the station for the word FOR a station.
Sadly.
My favourite "name on its own language" has to be the mildly suggestive Magyarország: I think Mr Orban should make a similar declaration.
I do like "Turkiye" as a matter of fact.

[William51]

The name change will be fine, it is not a lot different from the old one.

[jno]

ichkeria, the people building the Moscow metro came to London to see how it was done. The Gants Hill station was built after the war and designed to look like a Moscow station (an austerity version without the chandeliers)

https://thebeautyoftransport.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/12187475436_8e1509c1d2_k.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gants_Hill_tube_station

[ichkeria]

So in the case of Gants Hill the opposite in fact. These stations are wonders of design.
How ironic that the Soviet metro in Ukraine, much of which was also envisaged as a series of bomb shelters, is now protecting people, especially in Kharkiv, against the neo-Soviets.

[jno]

very deep in Kyiv, isn't it? Has to be to get under the river, as I heard it. People hid in the tube stations during the Blitz but it didn't always protect them, lots died at Balham when a bomb opened a crater and a bus fell through on them.

[Spicerack]

Turkey is a bootiful name.

[ichkeria]

"very deep in Kyiv, isn't it? "

It's deep everywhere in the old Soviet Union. Arsenal station in Kyiv is the deepest in the world, although the entrance is on a hill, which helps. Then a couple of stops or so later you are crossing the Dnipro on a bridge!
Kreshchatyk (where U2 played the other week) has the longest escalator in the world. It's actually a double escalator: I'm not sure if the measurement includes both bits. I could bore for Britain on this, so stop me now :-)

[tiggerblue10]

I have no problem pronouncing it ;o)

[Peter Pedant]

egypt as misr?
too many puns on misery ( civil service is - misery not mystery)

auncient Coptos ( now Qift - never mind) a leedol village gave its name to the whole country ( miosis or metonymy) - Egypt

Damascus - as Dim -shack - lots of people think it now is....

this thread is quite educational, so it will obviously go soon

[douglas9401]

Come on now, it's just 'Turkey' in a Brummie accent.

[tomus42]

Turkey can call itself whatever it wants, and we can call it something else if we like.

For example I think the French call England Angleterre, which is fine.