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Why waste time thinking of names when your forefathers had perfectly good ones already? (media.piefed.social)
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[โ€“] cmbabul@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the first US states was named for a George

[โ€“] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, the debtors' colony. Better than Virginia, named after Queen Elizabeth I's alleged virginity.