City to Country Quiz #5

Barf.

i knew that

'If the city is in multiple countries, we are referring to the most populous one'

i knew that too

Let's see umpteen million people, huge megalopolis on its continent, in one of the most populous nations on earth. And your nominee is what now?

I'm still thinking Lwow when it was Polish. Half of Poland was stolen by the USSR and they kicked the Poles out, called it Ukrainian, and in turn taking an enormous chunk of Germany, kicking the Germans out and calling that Polish. Wilson's 14 Points were given condescending acknowledgement at Versailles and rewritten like an Orwell treatise after the Second World War.

Took me forever to get Ghent...never seen it spelled without the h.

It's the original Dutch spelling.

Near Xum, wasn't it?

Ulan Bator should be spelled Ulaanbaatar. I've never seen it spelled that way before

You mean it's Anglicized as any way its written or pronounced in English. Trying to spell a foreign word which uses sounds not used in English is futile. Anyone who contests English pronunciations of foreign places has already mastered tons of English as it is. They aren't kind of eager to learn how to say something familiar to them in a new language, while they are conversing with its native speakers? If I learned Chinese and spoke to Chinese people I would want to recognize how to say USA, New York, etc. instead of just going about clueless, proudly carrying on conversations yet missing my own country when it was mentioned. It's a small part of tens of thousands of bits of words, pronunciations, rules, syntax, idioms, customs that someone has already learned at the point that they whine about someone not saying some unpronounceable word because they suddenly don't want to advance any further into this language.

About as much as it's a band that did Whip It Good.