Cool to see that at least 3 of the English names of these are Native American in origin
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Why is it original names are always better than the changed ones?
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And Winnebago, the "small" one east of Lake Michigan, means "stinky water" in Ojibwe.
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I read all off these with the way I read Japanese lol
I only knew the one from the edmund fitzgerald song.
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I mean, did all the First Nations people share these names? I don't think that's the case, so if by "real names" you mean the First Nations names for them, I think they had multiple names depending on who you asked.
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What about whatever they were called before the people that called them that killed the guys that called it whatever it was called before?
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The indigenous people around Huron named it "the fresh water sea"... bullshit how would they know what non freshwater sea was?
Im not claiming the indeginois people were ignorant. They were surrounded by freshwater. It was called the lake of many shores...the French called it the freshwater sea. Have some perspective yall
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It's pretty cool that 3 out of 5 of the lakes kept their names.
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I'm down with those being the official name! I think that's great!
My grandma called Superior Gitchi Gumi
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To this day, there are folks that do NOT use IPA‽
- Giʒi Gami (ᑭᒋ ᑲᒥ)
- Eriel Hɵnan (ᐁᕆᐁᓫ ᐦᐅᓇᓐ)¹
- Miʒi Gami (ᒥᒋ ᑲᒥ)
- Ontarijoʊ (ᐅᓐᑕᕆᔫ)²
- Kar-e-njondi (ᑲᕑᐁᓂᔪᓐᑎ)³
Tell James Vulkelich to get here.
¹correct me.🙏75%confidence
²ri or rē?
³how I figured SotW meant “ri”². 65%conf..
CX ᐅᒋᐺᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ
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