this word has only been officially used since 1989 when burma decided it wouldn t be called that anymore. it was changed from burma to myanmar. they also renamed the capital city to yangon. and they moved it any way. they said we re going to build a new one from scratch and they match hacked a new cap tl. it s a little craze subpoena. happens in isolated regimes, even more than in normal countries. but that s why when you read news stories about president obama making the first trip by a u.s. president ever, sometimes you see a reference to burma and sometimes as myanmar. even though everybody thinks of rangoon as the capital of burma,