As wiki states, it's rather fallen out of use since the Second World War so I'd peg it as archaic rather than modern English.

I certainly haven't seen it spelled like that for a long long time.

I know old colonial buffers who call Sri Lanka Ceylon. I think their word is archaic even though they're currently using it.

Here's another website:

http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Rum..._Romanian.html

It's ok DB . . . you're not wrong, you're just sounding archaic

Wiki schmiki... I know I'm right.

I always am.

OK... I say we get back on 'Negroe" sweets and forget about Romania/Roumania/Rumania... everybody else did!

I say we listen to some 2pac songs like mah n***z ain't no shitz and should stop calling cracker, a cracker.

Oh really ? And I just considered whether there possibly was a Gypsistaniarist Empire with some Gypsistaniarist colonists, like those overthere in America

Lets consider Ceilão, Southern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo and Congo Léopoldville !

Wow, you should really brush more often...

May I ask where are you from?

But you are racist, unlike your scoolmates.
..So if you were called "darky" in school now you turn and harass other people......

OK, cut. Back to your corners. Let's get this back on track. No more personal insults, thanks.

If you think Wollishofener is racist, you need to get yourself a new monitor.

Nope, I just need to add Wooly on my ignored users list

grew up in the 50ies and 60ies, and on our maps were Southern and Northern Rhodesia (British Colonies), the British Dominions of New Zealand, Australia and Canada, South West Africa, Portuguese Moçambique with its Capital Lourenço Marques, the Gold Coast, Bathurst/Gambia, Belgian Congo, French Congo, French Central Africa, French West Africa, British Aden and Hadramawt, Portuguese Goa, Damao and Diu, National China and the newly established Republic of South Vietnam. We had a new schoolmate in class as he with his parents had to flee out of the Belgian Congo.

In the Maghreb, Algeria wanted to get out of France and to become independent. Abdelaziz Bouteflika was staying in Zurich as a dissident against France, only supported by Swiss Bundesrat Friedrich Traugott Wahlen.

People found it a nice idea that old folks like Harold Macmillan, Dwight Eisenhower and Konrad Adenauer might hand over power.

And young people found it increasingly boring to see gents like Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and Francisco Franco del Bahamonde still in power, and found General Gürsel sending former State President Celal Bayar and former Prime Minister Adnan Menderes to public execution by the gallows rather in bad taste. Statesmen like Nikita Sergeyevich Chroushtshov and John Fitzgerald Kennedy signified change and renewal.

In the Arab World, Gamal Abdel Nasr and Abdur-Rahman Aref personified a modern age, and young King Hussein represented modernity. King Faisal, just new in office was a modern face of Saudi Arabia.

In Western Asia, Emperor Reza Shah Pahlavi in Iran and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Ahmed Sukarno in Indonesia were the modern faces of that part of the world.

I'm fairly sure that this is a fine point to note the total derailment of yet another thread, after 375 posts.

Closed for business.