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Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoOddly 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.
Comment on Can I make a volcano?
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoOddly 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.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Even worse since some level of Spanish should be understood by most everyone in the southwest lol
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.