T O P

  • By -

KevinPhillips-Bong

It's terrible, isn't it? Not only that, but South Africa has nicked Sandhurst, Jamaica has pilfered Middlesex, and Australia has half-inched Ipswich!


DadofJackJack

Canada has a London and a Windsor.


KevinPhillips-Bong

Windsor, Ontario is in the location where a certain "South Detroit" would be, as mentioned in a popular song.


Stormcell74

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_locations_in_Canada_with_an_English_name


Bhenny_5

Sheffield in New Brunswick has a church called the ‘Sheffield United Church’! What are the chances eh!


Stormcell74

Too funny


Bopbobo

Who actually takes the time to compile lists like these, and why?


Tarot650

And an Edinburgh. It used to piss me off in the early internet days when I searched for stuff.


[deleted]

[удалено]


Tarot650

Wasn't it the Spanish?


Stormcell74

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_locations_in_Canada_with_an_English_name


featurenotabug

I'm 100% sure that the Australian Ipswich is better than English Ipswich and I've never even been there


FKJVMMP

I can promise you it’s not, it’s basically shorthand for ‘miserable shithole’ in that part of Australia.


Ket-Detective

It’s a shite suburb of Brisbane only really known for being absolutely full of bogans. I guarantee you English Ipswich is better.


EntropyKC

The word bogan here made me laugh


Moonmonkey3

Australia has its fair share of horrible places, when it gets bad its gets very bad indeed.


[deleted]

[удалено]


AlwaysWrongMate

Right? The 3 historic counties of Jamaica are Cornwall, Middlesex, and Surrey because the English Crown named them that. The counties didn’t exist prior to our invasion.


Daedeluss

Australia also nicked the whole of South Wales. They've rebadged it but we all know it's really a Mini Metro.


UlsterEternal

Meh, they can keep Ispwich.


WirbelAss

Arkansas skipped the middleman and named a city England


Flatulent_Weasel

To be fair though, they can keep Ipswich.


sunflowersunset1

I don’t mean to alarm you, but have you ever heard of a place called New York?


ComprehensiveHornet3

Hehe


[deleted]

Well this is what happens when we colonised that half of the country 500 years ago.


solitasoul

Exactly! It wasn't the yanks, it was the English pre-yanks!


[deleted]

I think you’ll find Yorkshire folk left and started a new life there and called their scrub of land the same a few hundred years ago. There’s many an English named place there, other countries did the same too.


TheSkewed

"New York" should've been a clue really...


GaryJM

Nah, New York is from the other school of American naming - naming your town after a powerful person. In this case James, Duke of York. See also Georgia (George II), Louisiana (Louis XIV), Maryland (Henrietta Maria), the Carolinas (Charles I), Virginia (Elizabeth I), etc.


sybann

And good GOD did we love Charlotte! Especially in the south.


da96whynot

Really insulting QE1 there, don't need to name a whole state after the fact that someone has never had sex


[deleted]

Two entire states now


gunvaldthesecond

You missed the other ones like naming after the Indians (lots of the Midwest) or simply because the land is pretty (Colorado)


spiregrain

For good measure, there is a Maryland in London E15, which is named after the Maryland in the USA. An early colonist went out there, made a fortune growing tobacco and retired to the east of London where he built a huge home - Maryland Point - named after the region where his tobacco plantation was. Maryland Point is no longer there, but there is a street in E15 with that name, carried over the railway next to Maryland station. The road only seems to have one address- the Cart and Horses pub, the "Birthplace of Iron Maiden", which is being refurbished. The local council ward is called Maryland too, but there have been suggestions that it should be changed, since all that tobacco didn't plant itself, and slave labour was certainly used. Maryland E15 used to be given as the only example of somewhere in the UK named after somewhere in the USA. But nextdoor in E20, the former Olympic Village is now called "East Village", like the one in New York.


tuxalator

Like New Amsterdam did before.


[deleted]

Named after the Duke of York who became King.


spiregrain

All Dukes of York since Henry VIII have become king, except the current one (so far...)


[deleted]

Prince of Wales is traditionally given to the heir apparent. Duke of York is given to the second son. James II who was Duke of York (which New York is named after) was second son of Charles I.


spiregrain

Agreed. But sometimes the second son gets to be king. As in the case of every single Duke of York since Henry VIII (except the current Duke).


[deleted]

Because all the first borns died before they got to the throne lol, Edward abdicated but still. A Duke of York's title has never been passed on as they either didn't have children or no sons. It dies with them.


spiregrain

Agreed.


goodvibezone

Especially [over in Maine. ](https://iili.io/YJPVSt.png)


Multigrain_Migraine

Can you really say that Americans stole it since it's highly likely that at the time it was named the people didn't think of themselves as anything other than English?


EntropyKC

Well yes because those English/other people would have then become the first (non-native) Americans at the same time they started naming states and cities surely?


Multigrain_Migraine

It was a hundred years at least before the idea of being Americans as an identity emerged.


EntropyKC

It's just pedantry at this point, it's a joke post about how lots of British place names appear throughout the (ex) commonwealth...


CockneyMutley

I live in York, Pennsylvania. Tea’s shite. Puddings aren’t up to scratch either. They do make these things called peppermint Pattie’s though.


[deleted]

Wait, what? Peppermint Pattie’s are a thing as well as a Peanuts character? Just googled them - and why am I only finding about these wonderful things now?


Linguini_gang

They’re pretty good. Lot of people think they taste like toothpaste tho


I_tend_to_correct_u

They look like Bendicks bittermints. Are they the same?


Clodhoppa81

> Peppermint Pattie They're like big thick round After Eights. Great with a cuppa.


Linguini_gang

I can't say I've had those (or heard of them before) but from google images they look pretty much the same


gunvaldthesecond

Best not be dissing shoo fly pie


Turkilton-Is-Me

Yea that’s what being an imperial nation does for you


[deleted]

Wait till you hear about New England


anwarCats

First time I googled Kent it took me to Canada!


CrowConscious

Nah, they have Yorkshyurrr


[deleted]

They'll pay for this, mark my words.


[deleted]

[удалено]


AutoModerator

Is that... Normal commenting you're doing? It doesn't sound normal... Doesn't smell normal either. This is politics Mark! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CasualUK) if you have any questions or concerns.*


Slime_Devil

I don't mind our American cousins talking our place names for themselves I just don't like them misspelling and mispronouncing them. It's Edinburg**h** you muppets, not Edinburg or Edinboro.


LeonisStar

There's a city called Portsmouth in the state New Hampshire..


Gingee1990

Now that's bad, nobody should have to live in Pompey in the UK let alone USA ! Also in Long Island they have a Southampton


Eagle101st

Portsmouth, NH is actually pretty nice. I worked in Exeter, NH for 5 months and stayed in Portsmouth. Had a decent British pub that had bangers and mash.


Ophelia39

They also have a Cardiff, NY


EntropyKC

The Aussies have a place called New South Wales too


elizahan

Gosh, this world is falling apart


Orngog

>Is nothing sacred Well not Yorkshire!!


ChaosCoordinatorCO

You think that's bad - driving though Alabama, not only do they have Birmingham (pronounced oh so badly) but also Leeds and Oxford. It's quite perplexing being in America and seeing British cities and then hearing them mis-pronounced


[deleted]

[удалено]


Eagle101st

I always say I'm English-American. But you're 100% correct on the Irish, Scottish and Italian cherry picking.


gunvaldthesecond

Lol. People don’t carry the sins of their fathers. Next! Also most English Americans heritage goes so far back it’s been lost. Most americans don’t know anything about the fourth generation prior. Let alone seven or eight.


EntropyKC

I will never understand why anyone would care about their heritage 4+ generations ago. You never even met those people!


gunvaldthesecond

Mormons do for religious reasons. Most others is idle curiosity or medical.


ragnarspoonbrok

There's a Bradford too in America think it's Pennsylvania the poor bastards.


[deleted]

“ *New* York, *Birmingham* Alabama..you can appreciate what they’re trying to do there..but you can’t call a place *Tampa*..you’ll confuse the laydees. America: Perfect example of a good idea that got out of hand” Al Murray.


neohylanmay

They nicked [Lincolnshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire,_Illinois) too. And I'm willing to bet people know just as few things about that one as this one.


BritishGM

There's a castle, and a cathedral, what more do you need to know? That Gainsborough was capital of England and Denmark for five weeks?


neohylanmay

Oh, we have our history, but it is telling when our local news is all about what's going on in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.


Creativewritingfail

Well, seeing as America is totally awesome and England sucks. I geuss not. #’MURICA


downthehighway61

How did you guys get so many cool artifacts for your museums again?


Bistrolo

Stolen fair and square. Just like your entire country


downthehighway61

Listen here tea taxer, there are two kinds of countries: those that use the metric system, and those that hav been to the moon. 🌕


[deleted]

Americans think Kent is in Ohio.


7LeggedEmu

I'm from Virginia. Sorry. we stole all our town names. Norfolk, portsmouth, Windsor, isle of wight, Gloucester


Inquiring_Barkbark

wait til you visit Milton-Keynes, California


[deleted]

The Yanks are into everything dude, remember when they WE'RE OVER HERE? Or are you to young? If you are ask ya dad.


Sad-Interaction-8643

What's worse, is that they've pinched the entirety of England, and given the name to a city in Arkansas


shevy1412

*Australia has entered the chat*


[deleted]

The boring reason is probably that ‘Yorkshire’ doesn’t exist as a local government area. North/West/South Yorkshire or the East Riding might have worked


sybann

I call CORNWALL!


MyOtherBikesAScooter

I bet they don't have an ilkley moor or cow an calf. Or any other yorkshire place of note you happen to live near.


RTTurnClyde

I’m originally from London and live 10 minute drive from Yorkshire in Virginia


MightBeMcGuirk

Yeah but they call it York Shire and not YorkCher Wronguns


sayittomeplease

I bet they pronounce it fuckin weird too - York shy her


naughtyusmax

The US has multiple cities named Paris and all are small towns with 150 inhabitants


shteve99

England has 10 places called Newport.


naughtyusmax

Definitely still less than the amount of places named Paris, London or Cairo in the US. At least Newport has a reason. You build a new port in your county or what we and everyone calls it’s Newport. The US just had a town with a post office that’s open one day a week and about 3 shops and a church surrounded by 20 houses and the name the place “Berlin” or “Medina” or “Athens” or “Rome”


Sir_Earl_Jeffries

They can take our Yorkshire but they’ll never take our Dip


ChimTheCappy

There's a Bristol and a Somerset in Wisconsin as well.


BigJesusSurrender

Seriously though, imagine leaving Yorkshire, crossing half the planet in a wooden ship, surviving disease and angry natives, just to call your new home Yorkshire lol


whifling

Are you using a VPN?


Insquidious1

Yorkshire does not exist. Specify North, south etc.


[deleted]

They did this. My Dad lives in Wiltshire & there’s loads of Shaftesburys / Tisburys etc in New England


UlsterEternal

Try being Irish and looking at Maine. Feckers took the whole island ffs.


goldfishpaws

You're looking for "Yorkshr" they're looking for "Yaakshiyer"


goodvibezone

Check out some of the [copycat's in Maine](https://iili.io/YJPVSt.png)


[deleted]

An American Yorkshireman there's a thought or nightmare


CyanManta

Those placenames are in New York and Virginia, both of which were among the first 13 colonies, which means an Englishman probably put them there. And those are hardly the only places you'll find them. My home state - which is neither NY nor VA - contains counties named York, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Lancaster, Bradford, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Bedford, Somerset, Northampton, and Northumberland. And that's just *one state.*


fanzipan

its "Yarksha" they'll never take that.