![]() English (Diacritical) pronunciation is correct." It turns out that only the two IPA (international phonetic alphabet) choices show the pronunciation of "Burma" the U.S. English (IPA), and British English (IPA). According to TidBits, a Mac blog that apparently first reported this, "Dictionary has three different options for displaying the pronunciation key, which you can select in the Preferences window: U.S. Either way, if I were manufacturing this sort of thing I might flag all the controversial geographical terms for careful review.Īnother reason it is probably an accident (and not someone's intentional statement) is that it only appears this way in one phonetic system. I've edited articles that required the country to be called Burma for political reasons and others that follow the international convention of calling it Myanmar. I would tend to think this is an accident, but it's an interesting one. ![]()
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