• @[email protected]
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    1210 hours ago

    Brooklyn is Kings County. Queensborough is Queens County. Staten Island is Richmond County. Manhattan is New York County. The Bronx is Bronx County.

  • @owenfromcanada
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    1212 hours ago

    This implies the existence of the Brono and the Brona. I think Brono might be another name for New Jersey.

  • @[email protected]
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    2414 hours ago

    Time for Womanhattan

    But that still has the word man in it

    Wopersonhattan

    But that has the gender term son in it

    Woperchildhattan

    • Executive Chimp
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      24 hours ago

      Fun fact, woman and man come from different roots. So while it might have the letters of man in it, it doesn’t have man exactly.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 hours ago

        That doesn’t sound right…

        From what I remember “woman” comes from “wifman”, which is a compound of “wif” and “man”, and back then “man” still refered to male and female persons, and “wer” and “wif” were male and female persons respectively.

        • Executive Chimp
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          31 hour ago

          Fun fact: my memory is shitty. Looks like you’re right except that “man” wasn’t gendered at the time.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 hour ago

            except that “man” wasn’t gendered at the time.

            But I included that, didn’t I?

            and back then “man” still refered to male and female persons

            Or do you mean rather than male and female, I should have said persons regardless of gender? I guess that makes more sense.

  • Aatube
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    814 hours ago

    the archive team lasts a day shorter when you upload a screenshot as a JPG

    • @PugJesusOP
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      614 hours ago

      Let me convert the format a few more times and reupload

  • @[email protected]
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    413 hours ago

    According to my NYC high school teachers, most of the streets in lower Manhattan were named after big landowners. There are a few streets with female first names [Catherine, Jane, Anne] that were named after the wives/daughters of the great men.