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I am assuming IEEE is not travelling the world doing investigative journalism, they will have used whatever media was provided by the university.

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Yes because otherwise they would have fact checked that there's no lake Geneva.

Lake Geneva is the English name commonly used to refer to Lac Léman. I suspect you know that, but I don't follow why you object to that name.

Interesting, that's the equivalent of me unilaterally calling New York "Nouvelle Amsterdam" then. But it was simply to tickle Geneva's people.

> that's the equivalent of me unilaterally calling New York "Nouvelle Amsterdam" then

This is very common. The name used by the locals is called endonym and the one used by foreigners is the exonym.

For example Zhōnghuá is the endonym vs China the exonym. Or Magyarország vs Hungary. Or Deutschland vs Germany. Or so I not just list English exonyms Lake Balaton vs Plattensee.

German and Deutsch

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