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Hey, give them some credit, they have some diversity - there's place in europe, new place in europe, mispronounced place in europe, british ruler, catholic saint in spanish, american president, explorer related to america, and of course native american place/tribe, and random native american word
I think you're just describing how the etymology of most named places works.
In my country we name places after the surrounding area/environment. If it's an area with a big hill it will probably have a name to reflect that.
I love visiting other areas "Old Barn Rd", and "Swamp Rd"
These days you can't even tell the name comes from the area. They use old words to describe it. An area with a hill could be called a "Something-bjer". Bjer means hill and is close to the modern word Berg but if you don't know about it then you don't think about it.
Sure, we could have old barn road. But I am not talking about roads. More like City names, local village names, local area names and such.
Gotcha.
That's interesting, I've never heard of bjer before
Unless you are from Sweden it's not that surprising you never heard about "bjer" haha. I only learned about it pretty recently and I am born and raised here 😅 The majority of people probably never think about why places are named the way they are
I was thinking you meant in the US, like in New England or something. Glad I learned a new thing already today
The Spanish names barely count because those were originally Mexican and had been named before USA was born.
Americans can't pronounce Illinois
Illin-wah
N’wah!
Kansas
Arkansas
Kansas
Arkansas
Kansas and pirate Kansas
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7X7cEh5au8&pp=0gcJCUECo7VqN5tD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVPsbr9tz60
There's a town in Illinois called Sauget with an ongoing debate over how to pronounce it. None of the dozens of pronunciations are what you'd think.
I vote they settle on changing the name to sausage.