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submitted 1 month ago by [M] to c/fns@quokk.au
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51921563

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[–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

It's pretty cool that 3 out of 5 of the lakes kept their names.

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    • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    My grandma called Superior Gitchi Gumi

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

    The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee

    The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

    When the skies of November turn gloomy

    With a load of iron ore, twenty-six thousand tons more

    Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty

    That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed

    When the gales of November came early

    Gorden Lightfoot The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    She got it from Hiawatha but yeah that's it :)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    is it «ᒋᔑ» or «ᒋᔐ» ᒐᒥ?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I think Gorden got it slightly wrong in the song ( It should be Gami, not Gumee)

    According to the wiki,

    The Ojibwe name for the lake is gichi-gami (in syllabics: ᑭᒋᑲᒥ, pronounced gitchi-gami or kitchi-gami in different dialects),[14] meaning "great sea". Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote this name as "Gitche Gumee" in the poem The Song of Hiawatha, as did Gordon Lightfoot in his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

    But since Gorden's song was so popular a lot of folk assumed Gumee was correct.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    Doubly, seeing as that's not what I am asking😆.
    TIL ᐅᒋᐺᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ script differently: (ᑭᒋᑲᒥ) vs (ᒋᔐᒐᒥ) [Inuit]

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Ah I misunderstood, that I have no clue about.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    no worries, I have a lot to learn😂

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    • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    I'm down with those being the official name! I think that's great!

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    To this day, there are folks that do NOT use IPA‽

    • Giʒi Gami (ᑭᒋ ᑲᒥ)
    • Eriel Hɵnan (ᐁᕆᐁᓫ ᐦᐅᓇᓐ)¹
    • Miʒi Gami (ᒥᒋ ᑲᒥ)
    • Ontarijoʊ (ᐅᓐᑕᕆᔫ)²
    • Kar-e-njondi (ᑲᕑᐁᓂᔪᓐᑎ)³

    Tell James Vulkelich to get here.
    ¹correct me.🙏75%confidence
    ²ri or rē?
    ³how I figured SotW meant “ri”². 65%conf..
    CX ᐅᒋᐺᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ

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