Recently I was in the Czech Republic, visiting Prague. Once I was there, I realized that the locals call the city Praha. This made me think about place names, since I too live in a place that is referred to one way by foreign visitors, and differently by those who live there: Switzerland. Switzerland has four "short names," one in each of the four official languages:
Musings on the intersections between life, language, & books by TEFL teacher and writer Elisabeth Norton. My website: www.elisabethnorton.com