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[–] feedum_sneedson 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] KuroiKaze 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm not sure what we did to earn the name. Beautiful land but we'll take it

[–] feedum_sneedson 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a loose transliteration, same as 英国,法国,德国,etc.

[–] KuroiKaze 1 points 3 months ago

I never really felt it was a good one as it's really far off compared to the others