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  • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s never occurred to me how transliteration makes a mishmash of place names quite to the extent this has made clear.

    威斯康星州

    Wēisīkāngxīng zhōu

    The state of Wisconsin.

    the English spelling of a French version of a Miami Indian name for a river that runs 430 miles through the center of our state