Kiribati really phoned it in
Kiribati really phoned it in
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Have you ever seen a map of the US?
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Springfield. Lafayette.
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Find me 3 Lafayette's that are pronounced the same way.
If you want hard mode, find 3 people in a Lafayette who agree how to pronounce it.
I swear it's less inspiration or theft, more convergent spelling.
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It’s “le-FAY-ette,” of course!
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Versailles (pronounced ver-sails in Ohio)
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Also Oregon, pronounced oreGON, not ORegon as with the state
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Wait that's a city in Ohio? Would make a bit more sense why none of them know how to say the state name properly lol
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As a guy from Northern Ireland, the fact that there is a "Derry" and "Londonderry" right beside each other in New Hampshire is hilarious
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They were probably named that by guys from northern Ireland...
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Probably the same guy, just fucking with everyone.
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The US is too damn big and got populated too damn fast. You try coming up with 100 trillion place names in a couple hundred years without making any duplicates.
They even assimilated a ton of Native American names despite conquering and appropriating their lands. Goes to show how desperate they were for original names.
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Hell, just a map of Texas
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There's a Tokio, Washington. They got Santa in Idaho. Those are just the funny ones in my area I know about.
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Santa Claus, Indiana too
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