I like the irony that the topic of this article spells Hungary incorrectly :p

And I'm pretty sure Budapeste is how the locals spell it, just like many other foreign cities are spelt differently then how they are spelt in the English language. :)

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapeste

I think Google just needs to differentiate on the spellings between each of their Google maps origin. :)

i.e: - We spell Budapest like so. So on the English Google maps, spell it like that. In Hungary, they spell it Budapeste, so spell like it that on the Hungary maps.

munich - munchen. same principal i guess.

Heh, that was exactly the example I was going to use Rob, I only didn't because it was the only one I could think of off the top of my head...

Now the article title has been amended... Sorry, just saving myself from looking daft as per my original comment.

No, Hungarians spell it Budapest as well, without the e.

In fact we locals _don't_ spell it as Budapeste.
That is Budapest. Both in Hungarian and in English.

C'mon, the linked wikipedia page is from the portuguese wikipedia edition, that only prooves that Budapest in Portuguese has an extra "e" at the end, lol.

Yeah good point, lol. I searched for Budapeste on Google Hungary and it comes up with plenty of results, upon closer inspection they maybe all from Portugese domains.

Interesting points guys. Really appreciate you adding to this discussion.

FYI, yes, I did spell hungry as in food. :) Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed on iPhone while in meeting, so didnt comment when I fixed it.

Did you mean the "Capital of Budapest" or the Capital of Hungary ??? Knothead ... it is TWO cities ... Buda and Pest ....... Didn't they teach Magyar when you went to school ???

BTW watch this hilarious 3 minutes from a gameshow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTDkfkoBaI
"This might be a stupid question... But I thought Europe was a country" "I know they speak french there...don't they?"
Even the gameshow host pronounces Hungary as... hmm in a wrong way.

What is the capital of Budapest then JALOPKIN? I didn't know Budapest was two cities, but then I'm from England!

Budapest is spelled in Hungarian the same way as in English, German and so on.
I realized this mistake a couple of days ago as well but Google used to spell it correct "Budapest" some time ago. I don't know ehat happend there at the Googleplex.

Budapest is one city with 2 parts, Buda and Pest which are devided by the river Danube.

Cheers

Wow. This is how you make a big thing out of nothing... We hungarians are already used to english people being a bit of idiots and quite ignorant, but this just beats it all. After being told that Budapest is spelled without an "e" some of you still go off in being so. When are you going to learn to just take things as they are and not try to change them.

On behalf of Hungarians without a chip on their shoulder, please ignore Gergely. He didn't get his daily ration of pork lard and palinka and is rather indiscriminately pissed off about it. The rest of us realise that it was an honest mistake that has since been noted and corrected. Plus, we're drunk and full of pork lard, so all is good. Cheers.