moon,

Stop writing New before everything and just add a 2 at the end

vaultdweller013,

Instructions unclear. Named 8 cities Bismark.

Fedizen, (edited )

texas didnt even bother adding the “new”

Also Canada did this a bunch too

sukhmel,

No one even mentioned Georgia, the country that constantly gets advertising targeted for Georgia, the state.

zeppo,
@zeppo@lemmy.world avatar

Europeans named the towns. People From Europe.

buzz86us,

Come to NY… we have Florida, and Poland within 50 miles of each other.

pascal,

Georgia has Paris, Athen and Rome.

buzz86us,

Oh we have a Rome too

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

No New Shitterton, though. :(

DumbAceDragon, (edited )
@DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works avatar

To be fair, have you ever been to regular York? I have, it sucked. New York is a slight to moderate improvement.

Nfamwap,

For real? York is one of England’s most historically important cities. And a really nice city, too. What sucked about it?

Kusimulkku,

Probably it being in England

steakmeout,

New Zealand, named by America.

Ultragramps,
@Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

They named New Mexico, too, and it was so cool that aliens came to check out the city of Roswell.

nxdefiant, (edited )

After they were actually American, they resorted to “What it was called by the people who lived here first, but pronounced wrong”

lugal,

who lived here first

Sounds like they still live here. And sounds like they were a homogeneous mass. There were differnt cultures living together and to choose a word they used, is a nice gesture, but still it was the whites who decided which one to pick

SwingingTheLamp,

Hey, that’s just not true. Sure, the name of my state is Wisconsin, but we also have names based on “What it was called by the French, but pronounced wrong,” like Beloit (“buh-loit”), Butte des Morts (“boo-da-more”), and Lac Courte Oreilles (“la-coo-der-ray”).

nxdefiant,

true

FarFarAway, (edited )

Explain new Mexico then. /s

Ultragramps,
@Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This may have been the question that the aliens wanted answered, when they landed there.

Rin, 

<span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Indiana
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Maine
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Chautauqua County, New York
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Herkimer County, New York
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Ohio
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland Township, Mahoning County, Ohio
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Wisconsin
</span>

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_(disambiguation)

asyncrosaurus,

Canada did it right, and just named the city without adding new.

London Ontario, Paris Ontario, Berlin Ontario (before it was renamed over a minor European dispute).

Unfortunately Nova Scotia was already called that before it joined.

Agent641,

Big Jian Yang energy

Aceticon,

It’s even more entertaining.

For example Manna-hatta was renamed by Europeans (specifically the Dutch) New Amsterdam and later renamed again by Europeans (this time the English) as New York.

By the time there were officially “Americans” (i.e. after the Independence of the United States) the deed was already done.

SuddenDownpour,

Wait until you hear about Latin American colonizers taking inspiration in the cities of “Granada”, “Córdoba” and “Santiago” to name their cities “Granada”, “Córdoba” and “Santiago”. At least Venezuela changed a couple letters from Venezia.

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