 'Mahishapura' later became "Mahisūru" (a name which, even now, the royal family uses), and finally came to be anglicised as "Mysore" by the British and Maisūru/Mysuru in the vernacular Kannada language.In December 2005, the Government of Karnataka announced its intention to change the English name of the city to "Mysuru".This was approved by the Government of India in October 2014 and Mysore was renamed (along with twelve other cities) to "Mysuru" on 1 November 2014.