Georgian African American newspapers from 1886-1926 now available freely online

Re:Georgian African American newspapers from 1886-1926 now a... by Macha on Saturday March 20, 2021 @09:50AM (#26523226)

As someone in western europe, if it's non-US media it's probably Georgia the country, which is merely mentioned "rarely" as opposed to "only in us election week". If it's US media, it's probably Georgia the state. That said, countries are generally considered more important, so if it's not obvious you're talking about the US, I think the onus would be on people referring to Georgia, USA to specify.

Most countries are just not interested in internal divisions of other countries so it doesn't come up often. Just like I don't have the need to distinguish Munster (Ireland) and Münster (Germany) even though the latter often loses its umlaut in English text, or run into confusion between Northern Territory (Australia) and Northwest Territory (Canada). And the English language isn't short context sensitive words in other areas too, the most frequent example being "read" vs "read".

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Re:Georgian African American newspapers from 1886-1926 now a... by JackFr on Saturday March 20, 2021 @11:13AM (#26523703)

So imagine my surprise when staying with friends of my wife in Münster, they had never heard of Muenster cheese. They assured me that it must come from Munster in Ireland because Americans commonly confuse the two. But I was not convinced because the ‘ue’ in the spelling indicated a transliteration from ‘ü’. It was pre-Wikipedia, but luckily our hosts had a copy of ‘Das großes Buch vom Käse’ which let us know we were both wrong. Apparently there is also an Alsatian village named Munster with a distinctive cheese recreated by emigrants to the US.

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Re:Georgian African American newspapers from 1886-1926 now a... by azepoi on Saturday March 20, 2021 @03:07PM (#26525294)

In the EU the Munster cheese you'll find is generally from Alsace, it's protected (PDO).

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