Renaming maritime areas and features ;-)

[Seven Spades]

Isles of Scilly-----The Scilly Isles

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Turns out our American friends think it’s funny. Here’s the Key West local paper’s take on it

 

[jbweston]

Turns out our American friends think it’s funny. Here’s the Key West local paper’s take on it
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The problem is that not all of them think it's a joke.

Some of them want to own Canada (North Michigan?) and Greenbackland.

 

[lustyd]

Sound would be the more usual Scots term for the stretch of water separating an island from the mainland (or another island). Examples include The Sounds of Mull, Iona, Sleat, Luing, Harris, Barra, Jura etc. etc. etc. Kyle woudn't really be right as it comes from the Gaelic for narrows.

But then Puget Sound...

 

[Chiara’s slave]

The problem is that not all of them think it's a joke.

Some of them want to own Canada (North Michigan?) and Greenbackland.

I know it’s a popular view that Americans are stupid. It’s just not true though.

 

[Marsali_1]

I know it’s a popular view that Americans are stupid. It’s just not true though.

Indivdually, some are not, but there is a significant percentage who are (how else to explain the current national government and the types of "leaders" it is building into itself?), so the collective generalization is not too far from the mark.

 

[Stemar]

Indivdually, some are not, but there is a significant percentage who are (how else to explain the current national government and the types of "leaders" it is building into itself?), so the collective generalization is not too far from the mark.

ISTM that the collective intelligence of any group of people is inversely proportional to the number. As evidence, I offer committees. Now imagine a committee of 200M people

 

[Mister E]

Gulf of Mexico Cocain Highway.

 

[lustyd]

ISTM that the collective intelligence of any group of people is inversely proportional to the number. As evidence, I offer committees. Now imagine a committee of 200M people

The problem with committees isn’t the number, it’s the kind of people who like being on a committee.

 

[Boathook]

The problem with committees isn’t the number, it’s the kind of people who like being on a committee.

Committees are also good if you like to be busy and not be responsible for any lack of achievement !

 

[Stemar]

Committees are also good if you like to be busy and not be responsible for any lack of achievement !

Which is exactly why I'm not on any sort of committee. I'm lazy, but the kind of lazy that wants to see things get done so I can put my feet up with a clear conscience

 

[LittleSister]

I know it’s a popular view that Americans are stupid. It’s just not true though.

They're not?

Then who else is available to help the British feel superior?

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Mmm. Superpower emulating defeated former superpower The irony of it.

 

[dunedin]

I know it’s a popular view that Americans are stupid. It’s just not true though.

Oh, ok - is it just the ones higher up that this applies to

 

[jbweston]

I know it’s a popular view that Americans are stupid. It’s just not true though.

I think they have the same range from good sense to stupidty as us Brits. Although there are some national traits in terms of the type of good sense or stupidity we see in each place.

 

[johnalison]

I think they have the same range from good sense to stupidty as us Brits. Although there are some national traits in terms of the type of good sense or stupidity we see in each place.

The geographical isolation of many Americans does seem to make many of them startlingly ignorant of what goes on in the rest of the world, judging by some of the interviews or comments we see quoted. I suspect that one might end up with the same conclusion by examining several other large countries, even when allowing for the often limited sources available to some of their populations.

 

[LittleSister]

We could rename the Isle of Man as the Isle of Cats. Then it could be twinned with the Isle of Dogs in East London.

The Outer Hebrides could be the Detached Isles, and the Inner Hebrides the Semi- Detached Isles.

 

[westhinder]

Elon Musk proposed to rename the Channel/la Manche: the George Washington Channel. Why, I have no idea.
My own proposal: the B**xit Gap

 

[veshengro]

Google will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its Google Maps app, the company has said, after US President Donald Trump ordered that the body of water be renamed in US government documents.

BBC report Is Google Maps changing Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America?

Pack your gear and stand by your bunks, Greenlanders....

 

[dunedin]

Google will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its Google Maps app, the company has said, after US President Donald Trump ordered that the body of water be renamed in US government documents.

BBC report Is Google Maps changing Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America?

Pack your gear and stand by your bunks, Greenlanders....

Renaming chunks of land and water is nothing new - and not on the scale of an enforced “Anschluss”.

We have done this name changing many times within the UK and across most of what used to be the “British Empire”.
As Google says, it is so common that they have a standard process for this when a government changes a name - if it is in international waters the countries with alternative names see their own version, and other areas see both. I assume this is already done for La Manche so nothing much new.
It is more of a shame the re-re-naming of Mount Denali, which it would appear was the name the locals used.
I doubt the local fish had a specific name for the Gulf of Mexi/mericans.