The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 7 hours agoNew names are hard, ok?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1430arrow-down13
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minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·2 hours agoBut you forgot, we also have to mispronounce it then get mad if you don’t mispronounce it the right way. -someone that was born in New berlin, not “new berLIN”, But “new BURlin”.
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-231 minutes agoHow about naming the town after a city in Austria, but still the Roman way? Not just once, not just twice, but (EDIT: I’m having déja vu after the last time had I brought up the several dozen Springfields)
minus-squareTheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·58 minutes agoFor a better example: Versailles, Kentucky. Guess how that one is pronounced.
minus-squareinnermachine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoYea apperantly Worcester is pronounced “wis-tah”
minus-squaretitanicx@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-253 minutes agoIf you think of Worcestershire sauce it make sense.
But you forgot, we also have to mispronounce it then get mad if you don’t mispronounce it the right way.
-someone that was born in New berlin, not “new berLIN”, But “new BURlin”.
How about naming the town after a city in Austria, but still the Roman way? Not just once, not just twice, but
(EDIT: I’m having déja vu after the last time had I brought up the several dozen Springfields)
Strong levi-o-sa energy.
For a better example: Versailles, Kentucky. Guess how that one is pronounced.
Yea apperantly Worcester is pronounced “wis-tah”
If you think of Worcestershire sauce it make sense.