• xmunk
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    8 months ago

    A more accurate comparison is “The Palatinate”, “The Pale”, “The Highlands” or “The Yucatan” - it’s still wrong but it’s not unheard of for regions defined by a predominant geographic feature.

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      8 months ago

      Ukraine is not a predominant geographic feature? Like, I know what the name means, but for English speaking people the word doesn’t mean anything?

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        8 months ago

        Interestingly enough one of my examples shares that distinction and is just arbitrary. “The Pale” is drawn from the same root as pallisade and basically means fence post… it’s basically “What the English claim” and it’s a completely arbitrary region.