Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 year agoHow they got their nameslemmy.worldimagemessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1760arrow-down119
arrow-up1741arrow-down1imageHow they got their nameslemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareBrekky@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 year agoIts Iceland-> Ireland but working its way through the alphabet for the second letter, so d,e,f,g,h… etc.
minus-squareKᑌᔕᕼIᗩlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down8·1 year 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᛫ᛞᚨᛞᛁ@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 year agoYoure overthinking it. Thats the joke. Its funny because its a silly proposal of how it got named
minus-squareflambonkscious@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoTo be fair, the oz version does appear to have potential
minus-squareMaster@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoBut using us abbreviated state names…
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…