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Re:British Placename Mapper by sorokod on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:36AM (#39991923)
What would a native French speaker make of DuPage county?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPage_County,_Illinois

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Re:British Placename Mapper by eigenket on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:45AM (#39992005)
The name of the whole of Illinois is an American-English mispronunciation of a French mispronunciation of a Native American word which is/was something like irenwe·wa.
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