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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

They were still Europeans when they did the naming

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not necessarily. The majority of current US was colonised long after it became an independent state.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I live in New England, USA. I was talking with a Brit about the British show The Archers. The Brit asked me whether I could tell which places were made up for the show and which were real. I told him that if I new a place in New England named something, it was probably a real place in the UK.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The third one in this series is my favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13RhSc-DaOI

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

New Zealand did it with a whole ass country

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sometimes they don’t even put new in front of it. Illinois has a Milan, but they pronounce it My-lan. Smh

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bagdad, Arizona

No I did not misspell that.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

There's a Bagdad in Tasmania too, went past it when I was down there a while back (as well as Jericho and the Nile River).

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Supposedly that city is named after a dad who ran a mining operation loading stuff out in bags. Ridiculous.

There's also a Bagdad in Florida.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've heard that but I highly doubt it. seems like a post 9/11 freedom fries kinda deal. When I was a kid I remember hearing that they named it that way because the founder had been to Baghdad and thought it the most beautiful desert city in the world, so he wanted to invoke that spirit. Doubt the spelling was nearly as standardized back then.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The city of York used to be called Amsterdam before, right?

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