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minus-squareRagingRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·11 months agoIt’s weird they went with new instead of better. Maybe they weren’t very optimistic.
minus-squareNoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·11 months agoBetter York Less Crappy Orleans Marginally Improved Haven
minus-squareInternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoOr more accurately Great Britain should just be OK Britain.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-211 months agoLets be honest here, great Britain should be called below standard Britain.
minus-squarebizarrocullen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoFun fact: Britain was called great to differentiate it from ‘little’ or ‘lesser’ Britain, with theories go between Ireland and Brittany
minus-squarePipoca@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoSometimes in colonial America, people named things in honor a Duke who funded/controlled the place. For example, after NY was captured from the Dutch, it was a proprietary colony of the Duke of York. Better York sounds like it’s just antagonistic towards the guy.
It’s weird they went with new instead of better. Maybe they weren’t very optimistic.
Better York
Less Crappy Orleans
Marginally Improved Haven
Or more accurately Great Britain should just be OK Britain.
Lets be honest here, great Britain should be called below standard Britain.
Fun fact: Britain was called great to differentiate it from ‘little’ or ‘lesser’ Britain, with theories go between Ireland and Brittany
Sometimes in colonial America, people named things in honor a Duke who funded/controlled the place.
For example, after NY was captured from the Dutch, it was a proprietary colony of the Duke of York.
Better York sounds like it’s just antagonistic towards the guy.