The 2008 Figure Skating World Championship takes place this Easter in Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast. This is a sport where the Shiba Inu home country Japan and Mum's home country America are quite good, so I rather like it.
The silly thing is, however, that the Swedish hosts either do not know what their own home city is called in English, or simply disregard it. They call Gothenburg by its Swedish name Göteborg. Mum is upset, she believes the hosts do know, but simply disregard the English name Gothenburg. The English language is the property of the native English speakers, Mum says, and she loathes any attempt by Swedes to try to change the English name of a city. This is not a thing that Swedes can do. I agree. I would not want Englishmen or Americans to try to change the Swedish names of things or places.
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