Said Jerome K. Jerome to Ford Madox Ford,
“There’s something, old boy, that I’ve always abhorred:
When people address me and call me, ‘Jerome’,
Are they being standoffish, or too much at home?”
Said Ford, “I agree; it’s the same thing with me.”
Miami University of Ohio was established in 1809, when Florida belonged to Spain, and 16 years before the present city of Miami was settled. The university (and river) in Ohio took its name from the Miami people, while the city in Florida took its name from the Mayaimi people.
NGC&SU is no more. It has ceased to be. It is a defunct school.
(Actually it merged with Gainesville SC to become University of North Georgia.)
Another Georgia state college that could lose a word or two is Atlanta Metropolitan State College.
(If people are going to complain about geographically misleading college names, may I suggest the all time champ in my book: Washington University. In Missouri. Looks like a mix up of U of WA and WA State U.)
Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón (aka Juan Carlos I) and
Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia (aka Felipe VI).
Note that “de Todos los Santos” (All-Saints’) is itself a single name.
And the former Aeropuerto de Madrid-Barajas is now Aeropuerto de Madrid-Barajas Alfonso Suárez. I guess we should be grateful that the option of calling it “Aeropuerto de Madrid-Barajas muy excelentísimo señor don Alfonso Suárez, Duque de Suárez” was discarded.