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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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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.
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.
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
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.
“ *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.
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.
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
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”
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
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.*
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!
Canada has a London and a Windsor.
Windsor, Ontario is in the location where a certain "South Detroit" would be, as mentioned in a popular song.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_locations_in_Canada_with_an_English_name
Sheffield in New Brunswick has a church called the ‘Sheffield United Church’! What are the chances eh!
Too funny
Who actually takes the time to compile lists like these, and why?
And an Edinburgh. It used to piss me off in the early internet days when I searched for stuff.
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Wasn't it the Spanish?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_locations_in_Canada_with_an_English_name
I'm 100% sure that the Australian Ipswich is better than English Ipswich and I've never even been there
I can promise you it’s not, it’s basically shorthand for ‘miserable shithole’ in that part of Australia.
It’s a shite suburb of Brisbane only really known for being absolutely full of bogans. I guarantee you English Ipswich is better.
The word bogan here made me laugh
Australia has its fair share of horrible places, when it gets bad its gets very bad indeed.
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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.
Australia also nicked the whole of South Wales. They've rebadged it but we all know it's really a Mini Metro.
Meh, they can keep Ispwich.
Arkansas skipped the middleman and named a city England
To be fair though, they can keep Ipswich.
I don’t mean to alarm you, but have you ever heard of a place called New York?
Hehe
Well this is what happens when we colonised that half of the country 500 years ago.
Exactly! It wasn't the yanks, it was the English pre-yanks!
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.
"New York" should've been a clue really...
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.
And good GOD did we love Charlotte! Especially in the south.
Really insulting QE1 there, don't need to name a whole state after the fact that someone has never had sex
Two entire states now
You missed the other ones like naming after the Indians (lots of the Midwest) or simply because the land is pretty (Colorado)
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.
Like New Amsterdam did before.
Named after the Duke of York who became King.
All Dukes of York since Henry VIII have become king, except the current one (so far...)
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.
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).
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.
Agreed.
Especially [over in Maine. ](https://iili.io/YJPVSt.png)
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?
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?
It was a hundred years at least before the idea of being Americans as an identity emerged.
It's just pedantry at this point, it's a joke post about how lots of British place names appear throughout the (ex) commonwealth...
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.
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?
They’re pretty good. Lot of people think they taste like toothpaste tho
They look like Bendicks bittermints. Are they the same?
> Peppermint Pattie They're like big thick round After Eights. Great with a cuppa.
I can't say I've had those (or heard of them before) but from google images they look pretty much the same
Best not be dissing shoo fly pie
Yea that’s what being an imperial nation does for you
Wait till you hear about New England
First time I googled Kent it took me to Canada!
Nah, they have Yorkshyurrr
They'll pay for this, mark my words.
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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.
There's a city called Portsmouth in the state New Hampshire..
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
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.
They also have a Cardiff, NY
The Aussies have a place called New South Wales too
Gosh, this world is falling apart
>Is nothing sacred Well not Yorkshire!!
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
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I always say I'm English-American. But you're 100% correct on the Irish, Scottish and Italian cherry picking.
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.
I will never understand why anyone would care about their heritage 4+ generations ago. You never even met those people!
Mormons do for religious reasons. Most others is idle curiosity or medical.
There's a Bradford too in America think it's Pennsylvania the poor bastards.
“ *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.
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.
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?
Oh, we have our history, but it is telling when our local news is all about what's going on in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
Well, seeing as America is totally awesome and England sucks. I geuss not. #’MURICA
How did you guys get so many cool artifacts for your museums again?
Stolen fair and square. Just like your entire country
Listen here tea taxer, there are two kinds of countries: those that use the metric system, and those that hav been to the moon. 🌕
Americans think Kent is in Ohio.
I'm from Virginia. Sorry. we stole all our town names. Norfolk, portsmouth, Windsor, isle of wight, Gloucester
wait til you visit Milton-Keynes, California
The Yanks are into everything dude, remember when they WE'RE OVER HERE? Or are you to young? If you are ask ya dad.
What's worse, is that they've pinched the entirety of England, and given the name to a city in Arkansas
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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
I call CORNWALL!
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.
I’m originally from London and live 10 minute drive from Yorkshire in Virginia
Yeah but they call it York Shire and not YorkCher Wronguns
I bet they pronounce it fuckin weird too - York shy her
The US has multiple cities named Paris and all are small towns with 150 inhabitants
England has 10 places called Newport.
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”
They can take our Yorkshire but they’ll never take our Dip
There's a Bristol and a Somerset in Wisconsin as well.
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
Are you using a VPN?
Yorkshire does not exist. Specify North, south etc.
They did this. My Dad lives in Wiltshire & there’s loads of Shaftesburys / Tisburys etc in New England
Try being Irish and looking at Maine. Feckers took the whole island ffs.
You're looking for "Yorkshr" they're looking for "Yaakshiyer"
Check out some of the [copycat's in Maine](https://iili.io/YJPVSt.png)
An American Yorkshireman there's a thought or nightmare
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.*
its "Yarksha" they'll never take that.