To the people reporting this: Yes, it’s a prank by the governor. But he really did so it, even as a prank, and the news covered it. So the story can stay.
And South Dakota has declared North Dakota to be North South Dakota
In response, North Dakota has challenged South Dakota to a duel. If North Dakota wins, both states will be combined into The state of ‘Dakota’.
California should declare Lake Tahoe to be called Tahoe Tahoe.
Lake on California side
Tahoe on Nevada side
(It’ll look right on certain maps)
This is great. Maybe officials from all over will rename places had make google add all the different names as per their policy. Imagine taking an interstate road trip and having place names keep changing on google maps as you cross state lines.
If Canada renames Lake Michigan/Illinois to Lake Ontario 2: Electric Boogaloo, would Google label it as Lake Michigan (Lake Illinois (Lake Ontario 2: Electric Boogaloo))? What if Québec wants to spread some French to it too?
Edit: updated Lake Manitoba to Lake Ontario 2 because it’s funnier
Idaho is now YOUdaho
Uranus is now OURanus.
Uranus Mychoice
Interesting, the lake’s name was changed from Illinois to Michigan around 1720. Time to take it back! https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee8c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
In all seriousness, language and word choice are a very big part of propaganda and influence. It’s not an accident that we are discussing “death tax” instead of “inheritance tax”, or that you see reports of “looters” vs “survivors/scavengers”.
honestly as a non-American, this would unironically make things less confusing: the largest city on that lake is Chicago and I always have to consciously remember “that city is in Illinois, but the lake it is on is called Lake Michigan”.
Illinois has a pretty small coastline with it though. Michigan and Wisconsin completely dwarf Illinois’s coast on the lake (and Michigan by a lot)
Yup, I realize that too when looking at a map of it. Still, the only place on that lake I can name off the top of my head is Chicago and several times in my life already, my brain already went “and that’s on Lake Michigan, so it’s in Michiga– no, riiiiiight, it’s in Illinois”.
How could you forget about the famous trash city of gary Indiana?
UK declares US to be called “United Colonies”
“The Sort of United Colonies Kingdom” or The SUCK
For the record, I do delare, that the Best Lake be named for the Best State. So now, hence forth and forever, Lake Superior shall be known as Lake Minnesota.
And Canadians, if you have a problem with that, shoulda renamed it faster.
We already did — it’s named after Canada. Why did you think it was called Lake Superior?
In other news, Lake Erie is still haunted by ghost pirates that nobody cares about.
