On Tuesday, she toned it down: “For us and for the entire world it will continue ... Mario Cuomo to great controversy. The new name appears on maps, but “no one calls it that,” noted another ...

But this week, at the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen, the striking landmark's time-honoured name disappeared from local maps. The 2,031ft ... names that reflected the no-nonsense argot of prospectors.

But even seemingly simple names can still prove to be tricky. Word puzzle advice site WordFinderX compiled a list of the most frequently mispronounced first names around the world. The data was ...

A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals A self ... to their location and neither domesticated nor extinct. The names of places would, where possible, be the ones preferred by ...

In March I wrote about a world map where the country names had been translated to their ... and look at the cities within those countries who no doubt have been subject to the same whims of ...

Warning: You may find some of the words in this page offensive - but you shouldn't Mapmakers Strumpshaw, Tincleton & Giggleswick have created a map of the rudest place names in the world.