Flying SquidM to Lemmy Shitpost • 1 year agoHow they got their namesimagemessage-square33arrow-up1779arrow-down121
arrow-up1758arrow-down1imageHow they got their namesFlying SquidM to Lemmy Shitpost • 1 year agomessage-square33
minus-square@Brekkylink24•1 year agoIts Iceland-> Ireland but working its way through the alphabet for the second letter, so d,e,f,g,h… etc.
minus-squareKᑌᔕᕼIᗩlinkfedilinkEnglish-5•1 year agoI see… but I still don’t get the joke. It’s like saying Austria and Australia have similar names you but just gotta change the letters a bit.
minus-squareᚲᛇᛚ᛫ᛞᚨᛞᛁlinkfedilink21•1 year agoYoure overthinking it. Thats the joke. Its funny because its a silly proposal of how it got named
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoTo be fair, the oz version does appear to have potential
Its Iceland-> Ireland but working its way through the alphabet for the second letter, so d,e,f,g,h… etc.
I see… but I still don’t get the joke.
It’s like saying Austria and Australia have similar names you but just gotta change the letters a bit.
Youre overthinking it. Thats the joke. Its funny because its a silly proposal of how it got named
To be fair, the oz version does appear to have potential
But using us abbreviated state names…