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It's ages since I used one of the spreadsheets but I'm sure I remember an 'enable editing' function across the top of the page upon download?- Andy Adcock
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Call me a retard but if this is an excel document, can you not just drag the lines across to the desired width?- Andy Adcock
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A couple there for me :) Not many will have Sulu.- Andy Adcock
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And you can state this so emphatically, how?- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,529
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So what, it was their money, their philanthropy that allowed the scientists to go out on expeditions. For the Partridges above, the two guys were naturalist and explorer respectivelly.- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,527
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Damn it, this is clearly deliberate and filtering through from those bloody, woke Americans, too much of a coincidence,- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,526
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The Scythebill programme is fantastic for this, even down to race.- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,523
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Verreaux's and Szechenyi's MP, are still in use by the IOC, let's see how long for.- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,522
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Thanks for this.- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,521
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Mar 17 Post splits of Nendo Whistler and Utupua Whistler from Vanikoro (formerly Temotu) Whistler.- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,518
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Hmm, even more supicious (y)- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,513
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I'm still suspicious in regard to the loss of eponyms, how long have those alternative names been in use by e.g Clements?- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,508
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They stated that these changes were to come in line with the IOC, fair enough if so?- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,506
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Not sure how this alters my question?- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,503
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Maybe but, can you point to any examples where one of the other authorities has changed a name to come in line with the IOC?- Andy Adcock
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Fair enough if that's the case but there does seem to be the familiar attack on eponyms in particular.- Andy Adcock
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I'd like to ask why the IOC seem to be making all the concessions in regard to naming?- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,495
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I can attest to the fact that the ones in Taiwan are visibly different, I wonder, given their isolation, if they could be further split? Here's the Birdlife map https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/103727443- Andy Adcock
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I can tell you from experience, unless you you've been or done some 'prep', that number will be close to zero.- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,464
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Saying it wrongly, in country, will have consequences. I was trying to get to a place in Sumatra for Milky Stork called Percut and could not find anybody who knew where it was, this changed immediately with the correct pronunciation.- Andy Adcock
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What's the alternative? It's vert different, comparing a famous World capital or a remote island that few, outside of birding, will ever have heard of.- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,462
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This is comparing apples and oranges, two, totally different situations which are not comparable and btw, you do hear Americans talk about 'the City of Angels' occasionally.- Andy Adcock
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The islands are the Kai islands, no translation would change that.- Andy Adcock
- Post #2,451
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Yes, with direct translations, little and large or greater and lesser and yes, we should translate if this is to be the 'English' language list.- Andy Adcock
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Interested to know why the Bahasa language is being used in preference to English here, for those that don't know, besar, large kecil, small.- Andy Adcock
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