Wednesday, December 14, 2005

It's December, do you know where your Winter Olympics are?

The 2006 Winter Olympics will be in the city that English speaking population of the world calls Turin, Italy. The official logo has the word "Torino" on it, because the Italian word for "Turin" is "Torino."

Journalists are finding this confusing. <
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