Why wasn't New York called New London ?
Why wasn't New York called New London ?
Chase Perez
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Jose Martin
person who named it envisaged York, not London
Kayden Sanders
It was already taken
Xavier Rodriguez
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made me cogitare a bit desu
Chase Edwards
In England, Boston is a literally who town in the county neighbouring Cambridge's
Massachusetts really cocked that up
Cooper Miller
How many Berlins do we have? How many Paris'?
Joshua Jones
You have a Paris in Texas IIRC
Daniel Cook
And in Arkansas too
Nathaniel Hall
Is there Zealand in Britain?
Joshua Wright
Nah, Zeeland is in the Netherlands
Christian Brooks
And Ohio.
David Sullivan
You're thinking of Zeeland in The Netherlands
Ian Smith
I didn't know that, thanks
Oliver Morales
No worries
Why are Tokyo and Kyoto anagrams of eachother?
Thomas Perry
New York was a Dutch settlement initially. The brits took it roughly the same time as South Africa iirc
Samuel Young
It has something to do with the Japanese words that make it up (Tokyo meaning "eastern capital" and Kyoto basically just meaning "capital")
Carter Morales
Dumbass
Carter Roberts
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Camden Cruz
Isaac Miller
The Brits took south Africa ( parts of it) during the Napoleon wars
Jeremiah Lee
There are multiple berlins across germany lmao
Lucas Nelson
I'm pretty sure you also got some Lyons and Montpelliers and probably loads of other shit too
Xavier Jones
Yeah I thought I had that part wrong
Julian Cox
Please stop this. I will not have anything named after fucking island monkeys in my beautiful cunt.
Dylan Flores
>none in Oregon
Thank fuck
Luis Ortiz
Christopher Howard
the kyo in both names means capital. to to in kyoto also means capital, whereas the to in tokyo means east. just a coincidence really.