The US is too damn big and got populated too damn fast. You try coming up with 100 trillion place names in a couple hundred years without making any duplicates.
They even assimilated a ton of Native American names despite conquering and appropriating their lands. Goes to show how desperate they were for original names.
Have you ever seen a map of the US?
Springfield. Lafayette.
Versailles (pronounced ver-sails in Ohio)
Also Oregon, pronounced oreGON, not ORegon as with the state
Wait that’s a city in Ohio? Would make a bit more sense why none of them know how to say the state name properly lol
Paris.
Ohio liked it so much, there are three.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Township,_Ohio
Find me 3 Lafayette’s that are pronounced the same way.
If you want hard mode, find 3 people in a Lafayette who agree how to pronounce it.
I swear it’s less inspiration or theft, more convergent spelling.
It’s “le-FAY-ette,” of course!
As a guy from Northern Ireland, the fact that there is a “Derry” and “Londonderry” right beside each other in New Hampshire is hilarious
They were probably named that by guys from northern Ireland…
Probably the same guy, just fucking with everyone.
There’s a Tokio, Washington. They got Santa in Idaho. Those are just the funny ones in my area I know about.
Santa Claus, Indiana too
The US is too damn big and got populated too damn fast. You try coming up with 100 trillion place names in a couple hundred years without making any duplicates.
They even assimilated a ton of Native American names despite conquering and appropriating their lands. Goes to show how desperate they were for original names.
Hell, just a map of Texas