Flying SquidM to Lemmy [email protected] • 9 months agoHow they got their nameslemmy.worldimagemessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1778arrow-down121
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink24•9 months agoIts Iceland-> Ireland but working its way through the alphabet for the second letter, so d,e,f,g,h… etc.
minus-squareKᑌᔕᕼIᗩlinkfedilinkEnglish-5•9 months 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•9 months agoYoure overthinking it. Thats the joke. Its funny because its a silly proposal of how it got named
minus-square@flambonksciouslinkEnglish4•9 months 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…