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Trump says he asked Google Maps to rename Atlantic Ocean (www.rte.ie)
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"I said, 'Sundar, I'm thinking of the Atlantic Ocean. Can you handle it?' "'No, no, no, this time I'm not doing it,' he said, 'Oceans are different, sir. They cover a lot of - really a lot of countries. Please don't ask us to do that.'" The US president later said he would "probably pass" and keep the name Atlantic, before saying, "We're going to call it the American Ocean".

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[–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

A map can have different names for the same thing depending on the country. Like baltic sea is "Ostsee" in german. Or the Atlantic sea is Atlantischer Ozean. This would really only be a translation entry.

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    Then it would be a geographical name change across dialects/variants of the same language. Also, most people who aren't from Canada, UK or Australia choose "English (US)" because it's usually the first option. Most people don't think this far but also because the writing shortenings ("colour" > "color") make labels slightly smaller and are easier to type.

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