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[–] arken 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Finnish doesn't count, having completely unrelated names for everything is like a sport to you people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's not even unrelated, it's a literal translation of "United States" to Finnish

Similarly in Estonian sometimes we'd just call it Ühendriigid instead of Ameerika Ühendriigid