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Have you ever seen a map of the US?
Springfield. Lafayette.
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!
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
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.
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
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