Admit it.
Americans had to fix the English language
Admit it
Owen Harris
Christian Wood
I actually like the English naming system. They have funny names like Sommerset, Devon, Hampshire, Southampton, Essex, Sandwich, or Dover. They're named funny cute names. Our town names are the guy who founded the place, or the first thing the explorers saw when they discovered the area.
Adrian Peterson
>Hampshire, Southampton, Essex
I live in CT. We have towns with names like that here. But wtf is a Leicestershire
Leo Martin
Sounds like a type of sauce or some shit
Jeremiah Kelly
sus sex
Jack Miller
Ley-keh-ster-shy-er
Henry Sanchez
>Brighton
Adam Sanders
Also, I feel like there'd be a really big reasons why you would have similar names to the English in Connecticut.
Gabriel King
From Southampton. American shithole cities and towns should be named after international companies.
Jackson Baker
Lame cosmopolitan take, English is a beautiful language precisely because of its weird quirks. It's a language that's genuinely organic and reflects the history of the Anglo-Saxon people
The shire around the city of Leicester
Luke Diaz
We also have "devil's (blank)"
Devil's Gulch. Devil's Valley. Death Valley. Devil's lake. Hell's Gate (that one's kinda cool. They have a huge gate there on a mountain and the sky look ashy, which I assume is why they named it that.)
Nathan Wilson
That's because our town names are usually derive from something, there's a meaning behind them that you can trace back to understand some of the history of the area. It's such a shame that we just copy + pasted the names of towns for overseas colonies where they just lose their meaning.
It's the shire of Leicester, which is named after the Ligore people/river and the Old English word for Roman fort.
John Johnson
Do long words confuse you?
Anthony Cruz
Americanisation of the English language stems from people cheaping out when posting news paper notices and telegrams
A nation of tight wads
Tyler Cooper
>the Old English word for Roman fort
That word being "ceaster", I missed that bit off
Aaron Phillips
Less-ter-sheer
Michael Garcia
likester shire? am i getting that right?
Elijah Davis
I think the English pronounce "shire" as "sher," just like we do. The complicated English place names aren't so bad once one starts making sense of the patterns. I thought it was fascinating how Worcester, England, Worcester County, Maryland, and Worcester County, Massachusetts are all pronounced the same (wuss-ter).
Eli Morgan
>WAR SESTER
Anthony Evans
You would know better than me.
>Like we do
I live on the west coast.
Connor Price
Lestersheer
Chase Bennett
Ahhh, personalised bait—very tasty.