In Italian we said Nuova York until, let’s say, the sixties. Virginia Occidentale is quite uncommon too, I have to say. It’s more common simply West Virginia.
People used to translate more than today
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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoThey translated “west”, but not “new”.
Martj9@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
hansolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Right? This map is so weird.
huf@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
translation of names can get pretty arbitrary. eg, which “new”-s would you translate among these: new york, new zealand, new hampshire, newfoundland?