Mike Taylor on Nostr: Part of what's funny is that Americans named the Gulf of Mexico as they did because ...
Part of what's funny is that Americans named the Gulf of Mexico as they did because they were *already* in America. Of all the various gulfs available to them, *that* as the one adjacent to Mexico.
This renaming is as though we in the UK renamed the North Sea and the Irish Sea both to The British Sea.
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