Naan bread? Learn the Hindi language, people!

Your grandmother is your grandmother. What the fuck is 'nan'?

Is it like Nyan Bread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvx6R5hEnfI

Ask some northerners. They will explain.
https://youtu.be/xhaQ1z16bb0

Oh silent open plan office, why do you stifle my laughs so...

In my home town one of the nicer local hills to walk was called Chinks Peak. In the late 90s there was a campaign to get it changed to Chinese Peak (which was successful). There were a few who were de-crying the name change and "that's the way it's always been / loss of my culture" etc.

This is a morally clear cut instance when a place was desperate need of changing, however I think it does show that possibly sweeping phrases like "I think names should remain as they are" needs continual and revised context.

@fizzy.bleach loves a bidon

so when will blackboy hill and whiteladies road in brissle be renamed?

After independence in Zimbabwe all the local names were changed back, Gwelo back to Gweru, Gatoma back to Kadoma etc. It was important, the Anglicised names had to go, they showed a contempt and disregard for the indigenous people that had to be reversed.

These name changes need to be in context are they genuinely causing offence or is bunch of bored locallers? These name changes often used by the right wing to show that the world has gone PC mad...in that essence does more harm then good.

They were from the slave trade days and whiteladies/blackboy are the same road, but demarcated a racial segregation line.

The English did not spell there names out contempt but to make the names easier to spell and pronounce in English.
The changes are just an attempt to correct local prouncation... if it's was real patriotism they would disregard the 3nglish language as a whole... as said this is just a bout of political point scoring to hide the often inept politicians to keep uneducated locals happy until the next election.

correct

KALXON!!!!!!

Four naan bread

double expresso, please

Dunno mate. I have also never been to Australia so it's not really on my radar.

@amey
So should I ask for 'a naan', or 'some naan'?

A can of Monster for you

Four naan Jeremy? Four? That's insane.

It was contempt. It was basically, "fuck you we don't care how it's been pronounced so far, we can't say it that way, we're not even going to bother trying, so here, this is how you will say and spell it from now on".

Can I just say, @fizzy.bleach that never happened, San Pellegrino somes in cans or plastic. Haven’t seen glass for years.

Water bottles?

See them all the time in North london mate.

#gentrification

Hah^ busted.

Two scoops of GELATO ICE CREAM in a waffle cone please.

River Avon? River river. Just sayin'.

Lake Windermere, innit.