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Why... why is Philadelphia spelled with an "F"?
Virginia Occidentale has a nice ring to it. It''d fuck up John Denver too.
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It's translated into French it looks like.
Did you not notice "Virginia Occidental"?
It's Spanish, no? Philadelphia in French is Philadelphie.
my guess is Italian, in Spanish it would have been "occidental"
It is italian
Maybe so. I checked against Italian and it wasn't that. Occidentale would be "Western" in Spanish and "West" in French, so tjat tjrew me off.
But as others said, no translation of "New"?
Is.....is the map trolling us?
They translated "west", but not "new".
In Italian we said Nuova York until, let's say, the sixties. Virginia Occidentale is quite uncommon too, I have to say. It's more common simply West Virginia.
People used to translate more than today
translation of names can get pretty arbitrary. eg, which "new"-s would you translate among these: new york, new zealand, new hampshire, newfoundland?
Right? This map is so weird.
It's really fucking with me that almost everything is the exact same except for Filadelphia and Virginia Occidental. Just enough to look the same in English with like 2 tiny differences
The meme maker was threatened with a cease and decist order by Kraft-Heinz.
Why would you spell it with a ph?
Because thats how it is pronounced
Italian doesn't make that sound in any way except with "f"