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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > The Origin of Certain Place Names In the United States
 
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Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

so many of these are French names that just lost their meaning entirely. Green Bay for instance was la grande baie

A lot of places in the midwest and Canada are french butcherings of what various natives called the lands of their hated enemies, butchered again into english.

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