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[–] 23 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Why... why is Philadelphia spelled with an "F"?

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    It's translated into French it looks like.

    Did you not notice "Virginia Occidental"?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    It's Spanish, no? Philadelphia in French is Philadelphie.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Maybe so. I checked against Italian and it wasn't that. Occidentale would be "Western" in Spanish and "West" in French, so tjat tjrew me off.

    But as others said, no translation of "New"?

    Is.....is the map trolling us?

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    They translated "west", but not "new".

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    In Italian we said Nuova York until, let's say, the sixties. Virginia Occidentale is quite uncommon too, I have to say. It's more common simply West Virginia.

    People used to translate more than today

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