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minus-squareRagingRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoIt’s weird they went with new instead of better. Maybe they weren’t very optimistic.
minus-squareNoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoBetter York Less Crappy Orleans Marginally Improved Haven
minus-squareInternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoOr more accurately Great Britain should just be OK Britain.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoLets be honest here, great Britain should be called below standard Britain.
minus-squarebizarrocullen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year 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-up5·1 year 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.