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All cities more populous than every other city north of them (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was curious about Alert's name, and assumed it was because the town served as an alerting system for something, but I looked it up and turns out it's cause a ship called HMS Alert wintered there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Also I've only ever heard it pronounced the French way: "ah-LAIR"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I wish I knew people who talked about Alert (or Alert as I guess I will now start pronouncing it).

While we’re at it? It’s actually pronounced gif.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Wow that is remarkably disappointing. How could such a savage and uninvited place have such a scary name? By chance, essentially.