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"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

"Great" in that sense doesn't mean "good," it means big. You see the same use in a lot of bird names as in the great blue heron or the great auk, just off the top of my head.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Are you telling me that great tits don’t have lovely mammaries?

    Yeah I’m sorry I know they’re the particularly large plains. They’re just also several shit states and couldn’t resist the pun to mock them

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