Czech, please
We were they’d go back to Bohemia: The Czech Republic wants to make it easier to pronounce its name and is suggesting English speakers go with Czechia, just as the Slovak Republic is informally called Slovakia (Page A6).
This has been brewing since Czechoslovakia split the sheets in 1993. The Slovaks got to keep “Slovakia” leaving the Czechs with “Czecho,” which just sounds like some sad Eastern European clown.
You wound me, sir: The campaign rhetoric between Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has heated up in recent days. Sanders earlier had called Clinton unqualified and Clinton questioned his policy expertise (Page A6).
Have these two learned nothing from the Republicans? Where are the belittling insults over physical attributes? The attacks on spouses? The cries of “Liar!” and “Cheater!”
Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Not much on the tube tonight. CBS offers “The Amazing Race” at 8 p.m., with an episode titled “I Have a Wedgie and a Half” (The Clicker, Page D6).
Don’t take this as a bad omen for the show, but later in the season during a Roadblock challenge one member of each team must jump a motorcycle over a shark-infested pool.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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