Comment on Coming up with new names is hard

thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re telling me there is no Walla Walla, England?

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• cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like Puyallup had to have been named by a drunken southerner

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• pingveno@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Place names in general in the Pacific Northwest. Alaska is from an Aleut phrase. Out of the 36 Oregon counties, 10 have roots in indigenous language or culture.

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