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The way people act like York isn't a city in England (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sometimes they don’t even put new in front of it. Illinois has a Milan, but they pronounce it My-lan. Smh

[–] Chr0nos1 5 points 1 year ago

New York has a Chili, but they pronounce it like Chai lie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are 29 cities in the US named Lebanon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Like so many cities in the US, the name is used a lot because of biblical references to it. American Christians are not a very creative bunch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I never really thought of it this way.