return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTrump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up1210arrow-down17cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1203arrow-down1external-linkTrump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’www.nbcnews.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square46linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareRockBottom@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoI think Ontario is much more specific than America. America is so vast, reaching from Alaska to Patagonia.
minus-squareNatakuNox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month 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-down2·1 month agoWell, to begin with, America is a misnomer anyway, since Americo Vespucci was regarded to have discovered by way of a misunderstanding.
I think Ontario is much more specific than America. America is so vast, reaching from Alaska to Patagonia.
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.