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lol I was surprised that the UK has those too, then opened the article, and apparently there's a Suffolk in the USA 🙃
The three main naming schemes from left to right are: Spanish Catholic/Myth about gold -> Native Tribes names as interpreted by the French/someone related to cattles last name -> European towns/religous sect.
With spattering of what someone saw when they named (Oaksville, Pleasentview, spring view, Littlerock, etc)
The Pacific Northwest also has a bunch of places where we actually kept the names the locals gave them. And one major city we named after a chief we got along great with.
You say that, if we put you on the spot to name a thousand roads and a hundred towns, you would run out too, let alone with endless need for names. They use a lot of native names, a good share of states are native words.
UK has its own police state cameras they don't need to import them from the usa!
The UK and US are on the same oligarchs for the most part though. Palantir has been active in the UK for like almost two decades now for instance as I recall. The EU is the one with different contractors for this stuff, the US and UK are best fascist friends.
There's literally a ______ in the USA for every single UK placename, probably multiple.
Not all. :(
Ok, that is a really fun Wikipedia link! I'm reading in bed and nearly woke up my partner by laughing.
My favorite part is that it's not just a funny name because it used to mean something else and now sounds funny to modern ears, it's literally meant "shit town" from the beginning.