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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Big Jian Yang energy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know, we'll call it New Amsterdam!! How clever and inspired. Wait - wouldn't New YORK be better? Oh man you just read my mind.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Still better than I'd do naming things. It'd just be Landplace 1, Landplace 2, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

-This road

-That road

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Don't forget underscores for easier parsing! Landplace_1, Landplace_2...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

No new Scunthorpe though, for some reason 🤔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Sometimes they didn't even do that much. Which is why there's a Portland in Maine and a Portland in Oregon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ah yes...New Walla Walla, New Nimrod. New Nenana, New Miami

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