American city names: New-removedshire-Upon-My-Ass
46 0 ReplyHave they decided which of Arkansas and Kansas is pronounced correctly? I assume that's what their civil war was about.
25 0 ReplyArkansas 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.
24 0 ReplyWhile in Kansas the Arkansas River is pronounced arr-kansas. Otherwise it's Arkansaw.
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You can say removed, it's the internet.
Eidt: wow you actually can't. That's stupid. Literally 1984.
11 0 ReplyThat 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.
4 0 ReplyThat's lemmy.world for ya ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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New Bundleofsticksshire-Upon-My-Ass
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That’s a brutally discriminatory name these days.
They prefer the term London
42 0 ReplyAlways interesting to see people mention my hometown of removedshire online.
I live in South Bummersly these days though.
30 1 ReplyPronounced "Sow bumsly", no doubt.
12 0 ReplyI'll sow her bumsly, if you know what I mean (☞゚ヮ゚)☞
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I can picture it. It's definitely a Southern town, no northern industrial city.
I bet it has 12 pubs around a village green.
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18 0 ReplyMeanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners
16 1 ReplyDon't place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.
20 0 ReplyWell that's because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.
7 0 ReplyHow do you pronounce Worcester?
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Also because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.
8 0 ReplyThe whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn't a local.
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Burning, ham
Yet they can pronounce Halifax just fine.
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Fugsha lmaooooooo
10 0 Reply4channers
7 0 ReplyUsually 4chan but there are multiple chan-sites
6 0 ReplyYes, I later figured. Saw tens of other chans too Thanks.
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French-sounding places:
Vincennes-sur-l'oisement
Saint-martin-des-Vosges
Mathildeville
Miquelin-les-prés7 0 ReplyBritish-sounding places:
- Shitterton
- Scratchy Bottom
- Cockplay
- Penistone
- Gay Street, West Sussex
Oh wait these are all real British places
12 0 ReplyDon'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/
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If you put an a at the end the polish name is accurate
5 0 ReplyPortugal:
Fodarelho da Raia
Cona-da-Velha
Covide (this one actually exists)
Pintelhos
Estudasses
5 0 ReplyAmericans who pronounce 'Dubois' as DEW-boyse and DU-bwah depending on personal preference.
5 0 ReplyWe just do that. Miami, FL is pronounced differently than Miami, OK.
2 0 ReplyTIL.
Sure we could find other examples.
edit = Someone elese did 'Arkansas' and 'Kansas.'
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Lithuanian place names be like: Kalabybiškės
4 0 ReplyNewfoundland names be like:
Come by Chance
Blow me Down
Conception bay
Dildo
3 0 ReplyItaly:
Sborate sul Minchio
Pornassio(this one actually exists)
EDIT: formatting
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