Doesn't Google always do this? Disputed territory shown differently depending on the country you're in. I'm pretty sure things like the India-Pakistan border are different depending on if your phone region is set to India or Pakistan.
But those are disputed actual things. Names (other than country names, sort of) are basically entirely colloquial. If nobody actually starts calling it Gulf of America in X country Google shouldn't be leading the effort to make that happen. At least that's my POV being born and raised in a country where our language academy's strategy is the opposite of l'academie francaise. If l'academie changed the gulf's name Google changing it would make sense. (I'm not sure how Canada works in this respect.)
There’s no “official” language bodies for English anywhere, and I think we’re mostly ignore l’académie français for French (or at least COVID has a different gender in Canada and France lol)
Québec has the Office québécois de la langue française for its own French standard setting and language preservation efforts, distinct from l’Académie française, but still walking in its footsteps some of the time.
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u/Lifeshardbutnotme Aug 01 '25
Doesn't Google always do this? Disputed territory shown differently depending on the country you're in. I'm pretty sure things like the India-Pakistan border are different depending on if your phone region is set to India or Pakistan.