The world has never had a good definition of liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in need of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
The official English name was changed by the country's government from the Union of Burma to the Union of Myanmar in 1989, and still later to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, which since then has been the subject of controversies and mixed incidences of adoption.
The official English name was changed by the country's government from the Union of Burma to the Union of Myanmar in 1989, and still later to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, which since then have been the subject of controversies and mixed incidences of adoption.he final r in the English Myanmar is absent in Burmese Myanma (much as the medial r in Burma is absent in standard Burmese Bama). The commission added a final r in English to represent the low tone of Burmese, in which the word Myanma is pronounced.