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== A slightly more scientific approach to 'what is the most common name' ==

I have done the following searches on Google. A search for the phrase "The O2" yields 1,120,000 hits, whilst a search for "Millennium Dome" yields 650,000 hits. However that isn't the whole story, since (as previously discussed) "The O2" is a much more ambiguous search phrase than "Millennium Dome". So what I then did was examine the first 50 results from each search. For "The O2", 24 out of 50 results actually related to the big dome shaped building in Greenwich. For "Millennium Dome", 48 out of the 50 results related.

Now if we assume the same 'hit-rate' throughout the result stream, then the number of correct references to "The O2" is 1120000*24/50 = 582400, whilst the number of correct references to "Millennium Dome" is 650000*48/50 = 624000. That is (to me) surprisingly close, but it does seem likely that Millennium Dome is still the more common name for now.