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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 20 points 4 days ago (12 children)

It's like when I see a place named "Westmoreland" I'm like "Ok, so someone thought, "there's more land west of where I was, and I'm not very creative".

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Wait until you find out about Greenland and Iceland!

[–] ElBarto@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Vexingly, not pronounced as new+found+land. Apparently it's something like Newfin-lan, with a stress on the first syllable.

[–] ElBarto@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

or New York

new york (2) final.docx

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

new york (2) final.docx

Lol. I would need several extra hands to count the number of times I've had people email me documents with filenames like Copy of new york (2) REVISED-final(1).docx

if you need some extra fingers, you can just ask AI to generate some for you ;-)

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