JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoSince America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)message-squaremessage-square165fedilinkarrow-up1333arrow-down113
arrow-up1320arrow-down1message-squareSince America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square165fedilink
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 hours ago“Vinland” is what the Vikings who discovered the land named it. Not a bad name. Were I to name it today I’d pick some foreign language version of “The Land of Pulling Up the Ladder” or “The Land of Crabs in a Bucket”.
“Vinland” is what the Vikings who discovered the land named it. Not a bad name.
Were I to name it today I’d pick some foreign language version of “The Land of Pulling Up the Ladder” or “The Land of Crabs in a Bucket”.