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Has spelling of Vietnam been changed to Vietnam?

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In the 1950s and early 1960s, sometimes magazines and newspapers seemed to spell it "Viet Nam". Later, as the war became a common and routine reporting event, the two names merged. Some of the old timers like President Johnson (LBJ) used to pronounce Vietnam as "Vet Nam".

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