Comment on Can I make a volcano?

• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of you’re talking new Madrid fault line in southern Illinois then you’re kinda close but a couple hundred-ish miles away even if you’re in Evansville Indiana area. I think the closest volcano is in Washington state to us.

  Please don’t make a volcano in southern Indiana, my family in southern Illinois probably won’t enjoy being between a volcano and a major tectonic fault both lol

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t even want to know how people pronounce Terre Haute where I live.

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    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tear-ra hoe-te

      Think I did that right but not sure on how to spell out how we say haute in a southern Illinois accent.

      If you’re a Hoosier from south of Indianapolis then we likely speak very similarly

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I hear “Terr Hoot” all the time. Why “hoot?” I have no idea.

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  • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oddly it’s the same in New Mexico, where people should know better. There’s a town between Santa Fe and Albuquerque called New MAD-rid.

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    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even worse since some level of Spanish should be understood by most everyone in the southwest lol

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      • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was a mining town, so I thought that probably it was named/renamed by non-Hispanic Europeans. But why would they call it Madrid? So I have no idea.

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