return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoTrump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1209arrow-down17
arrow-up1202arrow-down1external-linkTrump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’www.nbcnews.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square48linkfedilink
minus-squareRockBottom@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 days agoI think Ontario is much more specific than America. America is so vast, reaching from Alaska to Patagonia.
minus-squareNatakuNox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 days 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-down2·17 days 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.