Renaming Things

On 12/31/69 7:00 PM,  wrote:

Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

I just heard that on WCRB yesterday, as part of the complete
"Pictures at an Exhibition."  I wonder if it helps to change the
spelling to "Great Gate of Kyiv."

 Or change Peking duck to Beijing duck?  Or the Bewitched character
from Dr. Bombay to Dr. Mumbai?  Or the Hudson's Bay Company to the
Hudson Bay Company?

in 1949 Bertolt Brecht changed "Lindbergh's Flight ("Der Lindberghflug") to "The Flight Across the Ocean" ("Der Oceanflug") and removed Linbergh's name from the lyrics.
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