return2ozma to Not The OnionEnglish · 21 days agoTrump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1209arrow-down17cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]politics
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minus-squareNatakuNoxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 days agoAlso. Ontario is just a Native American word for Big/Large Lake. So he’s made the name somehow less American than before.
minus-squareRockBottom@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·20 days agoWell, to begin with, America is a misnomer anyway, since Americo Vespucci was regarded to have discovered by way of a misunderstanding.
Also. Ontario is just a Native American word for Big/Large Lake. So he’s made the name somehow less American than before.
Well, to begin with, America is a misnomer anyway, since Americo Vespucci was regarded to have discovered by way of a misunderstanding.
That’s my point.