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[-] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 months ago

Why... why is Philadelphia spelled with an "F"?

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 8 points 4 months ago

It's translated into French it looks like.

Did you not notice "Virginia Occidental"?

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

They translated "west", but not "new".

[-] Martj9@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago

In Italian we said Nuova York until, let's say, the sixties. Virginia Occidentale is quite uncommon too, I have to say. It's more common simply West Virginia.

People used to translate more than today

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