Lewd sounding rule name

no banana @lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 344 points –
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Washington has Tillicum and Georgia has Cumming. This map was not well thought out

North Dakota had better have absolutely nothing else even slightly risque, in order to have any hope of justifying its theft of GA's rightful entry.

I refuse to believe there is a town in America called Rough&Ready

I was literally there today 🤣

We also have a city in this state by the name of "City of Industry." Not simply "Industry" but "City of Industry." And "Carmel by the Sea" as opposed to just "Carmel" or "Carmel by the Dumpster Fire off 99."

Thats crazy. I mean my country has some goofy names for small towns and villages but this takes it to another level entirely

Bigbone, KY is home to a nice state park called Big Bone Lick.

And if we’re going with parks there’s world famous Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, PA! (as in Punxsutawney Phil and Groundhog Day)

Napo'opo'o isn't 'Na poo poo'

Americans understand glottal stops challenge (improbable 💪)

We use them all the time but we're generally unaware of it. Like in "uh-oh".

That's leaving aside that Hawaiians ARE Americans, thanks to the Dole fruit company.

Right.

Leaving out the ʻokina and kahakō changes the sound significantly. The ʻokina represents a glottal stop, the sound in the middle of "uh-oh". In Hawaiian, it's a letter of the alphabet. The kahakō (macron, the horizontal line over a vowel) means the vowel is long - as in pronounced for a beat longer. What we call long and short vowels in English should be considered different vowels because they are different sounds.

Hōnaunau-Nāpōʻopʻo

Is

Hohh nah oo nah oo Nahh pohh ohp oh

It's hard to transcribe, I hope that's of interest to someone. He haumana a ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi au. I'm still early in my learning.

They choose Kiester over Gaylord, Moorhead (morehead), or Climax‽

Tbf Climax was already on the map. Moorhead is pretty good though

I mean, Dry Wood is good for Kansas, but Seaman also makes a strong showing as does Great Bend and Cawker City.

I don't know man, I live in Iowa and we have balltown and cumming (not sure which is better)

Oh god essex really has gone through a new meaning

Oh, PA probably gets way weirder than Intercourse.

Also doesn't MI have Exit 69: Big Beaver Rd? Also there's Hell, MI. Those are both way better than Dick, MI.