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Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ (www.nbcnews.com)

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Also. Ontario is just a Native American word for Big/Large Lake. So he's made the name somehow less American than before.

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[–] RockBottom@feddit.org -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Well, to begin with, America is a misnomer anyway, since Americo Vespucci was regarded to have discovered by way of a misunderstanding.

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's my point.

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