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   Evelyn C. Leeper to All   
   Renaming Things   
   05 Jul 24 09:21:58   
   
   From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/31/69 7:00 PM,  wrote:   
   > Gary McGath  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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