Bangladesh plans to change English spellings of five districts.

[bête noire]

I have no objection only with the name of Bogura.All the other name was beautiful and unnecessarily changed. And changing Chittagong to Chattogram is outright stupid and damaging.

They changed proposed Bagura to Bogura, I wonder what sopped them from doing the same to proposed Jashore and Barishal. Borishal would have actually been an improvement from yesterdays Barisal, but they decided to just add an 'H'.

Agree with everyone on Chittagong. It boggles my mind how that got through board room full of people, no one objected to it and after someone proposed it, everyone else just went along with it like "yeah, that makes perfect sense". A lot of people actually agreed to this idiocy!

 

[DarkPrince]

Funny and unnecessary.

Only Dhaka's name should change to it's original name which is Jahangir Nagar.

 

[Saiful Islam]

If there should be a name change it should be Mymensingh back to its original name Momenshahi which reflects the proper pronunciation. Where did Shing come from?

 

[bluesky]

I prefer the old name Jalalabad.

Reinstate chitagang to old name Islamabad.

As far as I know, Srihotto is older than Jalalabad. Was it not after the name of Shah Jalal? Chatgaon is also older than Islamabad. The name Islamabad was given to the entire area north of Naaf Dariya after all the Mog and Portugese pirates were expelled by Subedar Shayesta Khan from there. Anyway, the Chetona guys have already successfully changed the names.　

 

[bluesky]

Funny and unnecessary.

Only Dhaka's name should change to it's original name which is Jahangir Nagar.

Jahangir Nagar is an old name. But, the name Dhaka is older and original.

 

[Mage]

Jahangir Nagar is an old name. But, the name Dhaka is older and original.

They could change it back to older spelling Dacca though.