American city names: New-removedshire-Upon-My-Ass
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Have they decided which of Arkansas and Kansas is pronounced correctly? I assume that's what their civil war was about.
Arkansas is the one which was originally named, it comes from the french name of one of the tribes that lived in the region. Kansas just thought it sounded cool.
Then can you explain where, exactly, they're carrying those wayward sons?
It's easy when they're just dust in the wind
I dunno, but there'll be peace when they are done.
There is a Kansa tribe. No need to erase natives over interstate bullshit.
Didnt know, just kinda assumed due to how often states either split or names get recycled.
While in Kansas the Arkansas River is pronounced arr-kansas. Otherwise it's Arkansaw.
You can say removed, it's the internet.
Eidt: wow you actually can't. That's stupid. Literally 1984.
That will be your instances fault everyone else is absolutely fine. Lemmy.world admins are awful.
Anyway we should all be on smaller instances just on general principle.
That's lemmy.world for ya ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
New Bundleofsticksshire-Upon-My-Ass
That’s a brutally discriminatory name these days.
They prefer the term London
Always interesting to see people mention my hometown of Faggotshire online.
I live in South Bummersly these days though.
Pronounced "Sow bumsly", no doubt.
I'll sow her bumsly, if you know what I mean (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
I can picture it. It's definitely a Southern town, no northern industrial city.
I bet it has 12 pubs around a village green.
Meanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners
Don't place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.
Well that's because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.
I assure you we have done plenty with that fork…
How do you pronounce Worcester?
Woster for short
As an American who lived in Worcester, MA for a number of years: Wuster or Wustah
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Also because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.
The whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn't a local.
And by local they mean on the street by street level.
Burning, ham
Yet they can pronounce Halifax just fine.
And still closer to how it's spelled than seven centuries of people mumbling it impatiently.
You wanna know why every English town name has special arbitrary pronunciation? Amogus.
Fugsha lmaooooooo
Shout-out to Fucking growing so tired of jokes and sign theft that they changed their name... to Fugging. Because ze Austrians think that's less funny.
Fugging :-DDDDDD
French-sounding places:
Vincennes-sur-l'oisement
Saint-martin-des-Vosges
Mathildeville
Miquelin-les-prés
British-sounding places:
- Shitterton
- Scratchy Bottom
- Cockplay
- Penistone
- Gay Street, West Sussex
Oh wait these are all real British places
Don't you worry there's plenty to go around in France as well: https://www.lamastreassociationrad.fr/ces-villages-et-lieux-dits-aux-noms-bizarres-et-droles/
Americans who pronounce 'Dubois' as DEW-boyse and DU-bwah depending on personal preference.
We just do that. Miami, FL is pronounced differently than Miami, OK.
TIL.
Sure we could find other examples.
edit = Someone elese did 'Arkansas' and 'Kansas.'
Sometimes they're just named after different guys. Like Houston Street versus Houston, Texas.
See also Luis, Luise, and Louise.
Louisville and St. Louis were named after the same guy. Pronounced differently. Lew-ie-ville and Saint Lou-iss
If you put an a at the end the polish name is accurate
Portugal:
Fodarelho da Raia
Cona-da-Velha
Covide (this one actually exists)
Pintelhos
Estudasses
Lithuanian place names be like: Kalabybiškės
Newfoundland names be like:
Come by Chance
Blow me Down
Conception bay
Dildo
Italy:
Sborate sul Minchio
Pornassio(this one actually exists)
EDIT: formatting
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