If they do this, Czechia will be forever confused with Chechnya.
Business as usual, then. The most frequent question I was answering in 1999 was "how do you feel about Russians invading your country?" followed by "you mean there's two of those?"
But... Russians did invade your country.
None of the people asking have meant 1968 ;)
Would it be pronounced Check-ia/ʧɛkiə or more like Sheck-ia/ʃɛkiə? The second is much easier for me to pronounce, personally, though if they removed the ending dipthong in favor of just ə they both roll off the tongue.
The article says "CHECK-ia".
That's what we call it in Russian - Чехия
In Poland we sometimes call them Pepiks - quite snappy (although the chechs might not like it :p)
Yes, but that is denotation of inhabitants, the same way Pšonci is for Poles :)
Well, denotation of the country is Czechy; nobody in Poland would use full Republika Czeska (unless in some official documents). So I guess if the name gets changed, at least Poles won't have to change their convention :)
I feel that's the point of the change: it codifies actual use.
I think the current name is superior to all of the choices proposed.
They should consider a snappier flag as they were kind of lazy with it.
I disagree. It's simple, but the triangle is fairly unique.
OK, not unique in the world, and I know some people think "unique" should be an absolute like "pregnant" – you can't be "fairly pregnant" – but it is much less common compared to vertical or horizontal stripes. And it is unique in Europe according to that list and my memory.