On Wednesday 21 January 2004 17:33, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
The capital of the USSR (and still capital of Russia)
is Moskva (or Moscow, I forget which). We're an
English-language encyclopedia, we have to call places
/something/. Moscow doesn't have an English name per
se; it's a Russian city with a Russian name. But
English-speaking people have been referring to it with
the /English word/ 'Moscow'.
The way I see it, Moscow and Japan have their English names, which are not
same as their original names.