Chicago, IL checking in with acceptable air quality downtown and good air quality in the western suburbs. I didn't see any skunks this morning on the way to work but I did pass by a stinking disgusting flag for convicted felon Don the Con Trump. Trump will not win Illinois in this election!
The Dutch city of Almere is planning to add a new district, which they'd call "New Brooklyn", after the US American county. However, Brooklyn being derived from the name of the Dutch town of Breukelen, I have decided that I will only ever refer to the future district of New Brooklyn as "New New Breukelen"
Brooklyn is not a county.It's a borough of New York,the county is Kings County.The borough of Manhattan is in New York County,Staten Island is Richmond County.Queens and Bronx are the names of their counties.
You're saying, however, that the Dutch administration is about to name the upcoming district "New Brooklyn"-literally? If so, why would you want to use the Dutch name for it. Seemingly it refers to the borough of New York City and not the Dutch city of Breukelen which only historically happens to be the origin of it. Doesn't make any sense unless you do it with other US city names, too and you still call New York New Amsterdam.
@@_InTheBin, yes, they are literally calling it "New Brooklyn" (even the English word "New", rather than the Dutch "Nieuw"). And why do I only do it with "New Brooklyn" and not with the actual US American places? Because it's etymologically double and I wanna mock that fact. Let me have my fun.
San Francisco also has a Chinese name. Most foreign place names get characters that attempt to sound like the original, but San Francisco was and is an important trading and immigration hub for China that it has its own name in Chinese: 旧金山. These are the characters for "Old Gold Hill".
I know it's certainly a coincidence, but it's fun how the characters kinda make a skyline. Like the character for gold looks like a roman/greek styled front of a bank in the foreground, hill looks like distant skyscrapers in the background, and old feels like a tall residential apartment building somewhere between.
*The Atlantic Coast* 1:06 New York City. Duke of York, King James II. 1:40 Baltimore. Cecil Calvert Baron Baltimore. 1:57 Boston. Boston Lincolnshire England. 2:09 Philadelphia. Philos + Adelphos, Loving Brother. 2:36 Pittsburgh. William Pitt. *The Midwest* 2:44 Cleveland. Moses Cleveland. 3:01 Cincinnati. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus. 3:24 Detroit. Detroit, French word meaning Straight. 3:39 Indianapolis. Indian City. 3:47 Chicago. Bad Smell. Place of Skunks. 4:22 St Louis. King Louis IX. 4:51 Milwaukee. "The Good Land" In Algonquin. 5:05 Minneapolis. Minnea City. 5:11 Fargo. William Fargo. *The West Coast* 5:23 Seattle. Native Chief Seataf. 5:31 Portland. Portland Maine. 5:41 San Francisco. San Diego. Saint Francis, Saint Diego. 6:04 Los Angeles. The Angels. The Town of Our Lady of Angels. *The Desert West* 6:25 Las Vegas. The Meadow. 6:43 Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake of Utah. 6:52 Phoenix. The Phoenix. 7:10 Denver. James Denver. *The Central Plains* 7:24 Omaha. The Upstream People, The People Against The Flow. *The Desert West* 7:35 New Mexico *Texas* 7:52 Houston, Austin. Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, 8:07 Dallas, George M. Dallas. *The South* 8:24 New Orleans. Old Orleans. 8:36 Nashville. Francis Nash. 8:45 Memphis. Ancient Egypt's Memphis. 9:15 Charlotte. Queen Charlotte Sophia, wife of King George III. 9:20 Atlanta. The Atlanta Railroad. 9:45 Miami. The Miami River, Sweetwater. 10:00 Orlando. Orlando Reeves. *Off The Continent* 10:14 Anchorage. Anchor spot for Ships. 10:22 Honolulu. Calm Port. *Washington D.C.* 10:34 Washington D.C.
Cincinatti is named after Cincinnatus because George Washington was compared to Cincinnatus. Just as Cincinnatus gave up his dictatorship, Washington resigned his commission and relinquished power when he could have become an emperor.
Fun facts: the University of Memphis in Tennessee has a well-renowned department of Egyptology; their basketball team used to play in a pyramidal structure known colloquially as “the Tomb of Doom” (it’s now a Bass Pro Shops); and there is a high school called Raleigh-Egypt with “Pharoahs” as team name.
Pittsburgh has an H at the end! It was named by John Forbes, a Scotsman, in the 1700s. The 'burgh' was a contemporary Scots interpretation of the word 'borough' rather than the Saxon 'burg' meaning a castle or fortification. We Pittsburghers are weirdly proud of the H spelling and it is included when we affectionately refer to our city as the Burgh.
Minneapolis, Minnesota is a combination of two words: "Minne" (from the Dakota word for water, "Mni") and "Polis," from the Greek word for city. If you've ever been there, you know why it's named this way... it's known as the "City of Lakes" for the large number of lakes within its city boundaries.
At 5:22 Wells Fargo.... They started out as a stagecoach company, the specialized in transporting money. They moved to armored cars and such in the 20th century. They then found that it was basically a vertical expansion to get into banking and so they did. They also do credit cards.... It would be more correct to consider them a financial institution now....
Alburquerque is not named after the city in Spain, but after a Viceroy in the New Spain (New Spain was the Spanish name for their colony in North America stretching from Guatemala to Alaska and it was around for 300 years, not some time) which was honestly a pretty interesting guy.
New Spain included the Spanish Caribbean islands, Central America (except Costa Rica+Panama), and Philippines. pretty wild how many countries it included, such as the two NA regions of the islands and cenam
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico used to be called Rose, but changed its name in a contest held by a popular game show in the 50s called, you guessed it “Truth or Consequences”
A couple thigs: New York was originally New Amsterdam, and Wells Fargo was originally a stage coach company. Surviving today from it's Old West pioneer roots. Check out companies logo history. ( Note the stagecoach). 11:46
“Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why’d they change it, I can’t say. People just liked it better that way!” - from Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants.
Jacksonville, Florida (and presumably other Jacksonvilles and Jacksons) was named after Andrew Jackson, but was originally named Cowford because of the narrow stretch in the St. John’s River where cattle could swim across. Incidentally, the original name of Atlanta was Terminus, which was the name of the planet where Isaac Asimov established his Foundation. There is no evidence that the author knew this, or visited Atlanta.
Fun facts: Atlanta is nowhere near the Atlantic Ocean and is in fact farther west than Detroit but lines up with Cincinnati. Just to tie three of the cities you mentioned together.
@@B.Huntley_Sharpe Actually a century. Asimov COULD have copied the name, but not likely, because he avoided traveling as much as possible, was not likely to have ever visited the city, and was not likely to have been versed in antebellum Southern history.
@@allanrichardson1468 All interesting points. Which actually led me back to another old friend the Merriam-Webster Dictionary where I learned 'terminus' has several meanings in English. Which I didn't realize, but I'm sure Asimov did. All of this has brought me, once again, to the conclusion I need to watch UA-cam less, and read more. Maybe dust off Foundation to reread.
I just want to say, in the U.S. Midwest atleast, the word ‘city’ does imply skyscrapers or economical significance, but in certain contexts, like this, it can also refer to everyday towns.
Ft. Wayne, IN is named after a disreputable soldier. Perhaps a list of derogatory names and words (Chicago, vandalize) would make for an interesting video...
Houston is a surname of Scottish origin, from the place called Houston, Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. In Old English, the name Houston, meant the settlement belonging to Hugh. Dallas is a surname of Scottish and English origin, as well as a given name. When of Scottish origin the name is a habitational name, derived from Dallas near Forres. This place name is likely derived from the British dol "meadow" + gwas "dwelling" (compare Gaelic dail + fas). Austin is a masculine name of Latin origin meaning “great,” “magnificent,” or “majestic.” It is related to the Latin name Augustine which means “great.”
Cincinnati is also an indirect reference to George Washington, who was called the new Cincinnatus because he willing gave up his power to go back home to his farm. The order of Cincinnatus was created to honor George Washington for this act.
Place names fascinate me. When you go down to smaller cities and towns, you get to all kinds of stuff. Even so, they still fall into the same general categories as the larger cities.
In fact, the corporate logo still features the silhouette of a 19th century stagecoach. The connection to banking is because banks in the old west sent gold shipments from one to another as bank customers deposited or withdrew gold coins,
It is a common legend that Orlando FL was named after a soldier, however there has been another account that Orlando was named after the character from Shakespeare play As You Like It by a judge in the mid 1800s. There are actually 4 different stories on how Orlando got its name.
Interesting thing about Nashville: the name was also used for a splintering of what is now the city of Nashua, New Hampshire. Residents of the northern half, disgruntled at the town hall being built south of the Nashua River, formed their own separate town named Nashville. Once the Boston and Lowell Railroad rolled in, the two halves of the city made amends and reunified with the chartering of Nashua as a city. It is now the second-largest city in New Hampshire at a population of ~91k
For the wonderful city of Philadelphia you used a crappy photo of a building from a show about Philadelphia, but which is actually a random old warehouse in Los Angeles notable for actually being a setting of dozens/hundreds of TV show scenes.There are thousands of amazing photos showing what a beautiful city it is, and you woke up and chose that.
At 8:22 Dallas.... I like to think that it was named in honor of Bryce Dallas Howard....who would have thought that Opie Taylor/Richie Cunningham could have came up with a girl that looked like her??!!!!
i was going to be mad if you didn't include philadelphia but you did :). but i must say that the picture you used is the exterior of the bar from always sunny in philadelphia which is unfortunately in los angeles (but based on a real bar in philly)
The DC in Washington is District of Columbia, ultimately named after Christopher Columbus. Originally Washington was just a city within DC, but since its founding it grew, absorbed the neighboring city of Georgetown and expanded to fill the entire district. (DC originally extended across the river to complete the square, but that land was returned to Virginia)
As for Dallas - I always heard/read that it was named after Dallas, Pennsylvania which was named after the Dallas family from Philadelphia which included Alexander Dallas (Jamaican born) and George Mifflin Dallas former VP under President Polk
Minneapolis is not named for the state it is in. It stems from the Dakota word "mni" which means water so it is literally meaning the City of Waters or as the city states as their primary nickname "The City of Lakes" due to how many lakes there are in the city. Whereas Minnesota is somewhat similar but stands for "Where the water touches the skies" in Dakota.
There's a 3rd polis in the USA, and it's name origin is interesting. Kannapolis, N.C. is (was) a textile mill town named for Cannon Mills, or it's owner. How it came to start with K instead of C is under dispute.
Minneapolis is named after Minnehaha not Minnesota. She was a character from the famous poem Song of Hiawatha. The name Minnehaha means waterfall which is what the city was founded on.
Minneapolis shares a root with "Minnesota" rather than being named for the state. "Minne" is Dakota for water, and there are multiple places starting with "Minne", including the state. Suppose I should mention I live in Minneapolis, rather than being pedantic as a hobby.
I said on Facebook I'd comment about how I'll inevitably remember my local education wrong... but looks like I'm comfortably wrong in thinking I'd be wrong!
@@JRBWare1942yep it was re-added in 1911. They were worried that the H made it look “foreign” but locals wanted to keep the H. There are still some spots in the city where you can find it spelled without the H (like in the rotunda at Penn Station).
Quirky name trivia of English roots is reflected across southern Pennsylvania. Outside Philadelphia is Chester, county seat of Delaware County named for Native Americans. Then Chester County with county seat West Chester. Heading westward is Lancaster in Lancaster County and York in York County, while in England York is on the east and Lancaster on the west. Since the Courthouses in York and Lancaster fought over seat of the Continental Congress in 1777 as the British visited Philadelphia, it could be considered the final battle between the House of York and House of Lancaster in the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487) 😆. Further west across southern Pennsylvania is Bedford in Bedford County and Somerset in Somerset County. Near the southwest corner of the state is Washington in Washington County (slightly north, nobody puts General Washington in the corner). So some of the county names takes us through history from the Native American heritage to the British colonial era and ends with George Washington.
If I remember correctly, Livermore was named after its founder, Robert E. Livermore. I could be wrong though, since we never really studied the history of our town nor the other towns and cities within Livermore Valley. (This is from Livermore, California, U.S.A., btw.)
At 6:23 LA.... You need to continue out on LA. LA is short for what you said, but what you said is short or basically an entire paragraph. Guinness World records will tell you what it is, since it's initials are the shortest form of a longer name. Also, the name comes from what is written on a tombstone because apparently some woman died there that was relatively famous at the time....
Imagine Portland, Oregon being called Boston, Oregon. It would be crazier if it was called Boston because then both Bostons would be similar sized cities as both have over 652,000. I think Portland sounds better with Oregon tbh.
Miami may also come from Ohio, as a corruption of Maumee, a river in the Toldeo area; also Miami University in Oxford OH and the University of Miami in Florida.
I know nothing about the Norwegian one, but Florida (USA) was a retention of its Spanish name, meaning "flowery." Even back then, people used imaginative descriptions to try to lure settlers and business. Well, Florida does have some nice and a few unique flowers (though that is true of many other places), but it also has aggressive mosquitoes (& no see ums, yellowtail flies, chiggers, and other charming wildlife. Swampland would be a more fitting name.
I would go to a Cowboys-Eagles game wearing my Bills gear; because if there's one thing Bills and Eagles fans have in common, we both hate the Cowboys.
@@tygrkhat4087 thats just most fans. The absolute ass kicking my fav team, the lions, gave to the boys in jerry world last week was chefs kiss. Also served as revenge from last season
@@Lcngopher I know, that was so sweet. And to be honest; the three teams I would like to see win a Super Bowl are the Bills (of course), the Browns and Lions. The Bills have a lot to thank Detroit for; our founder was a native and twice we've been snowed out and y'all were kind enough to let us use your house.
You misspelled Pittsburgh! The city has to fight hard to get its H back. If you write it without the H, you are talking about another place named after it.
I'm sorry ... but the Alice Cooper had given the definitive description of Milwaukee in Wayne's World. At the time, we were not worthy .. .now .. well .. AC has gone to the dark side.
St. Petersburg, Florida, was founded by Russian immigrants in 1907, and was named after St. Petersburg, Russia, founded in 1707 by Peter the Great. In 2007 the two became Sister Cities, and celebrated the Tri/Uni-Centennial of both.
@@rayfridley6649 Possible, but I never learned that fact. I was, however, living in Pinellas County in 2007 and went downtown for the St. Pete, Florida, centennial, while they were also celebrating the tricentennial of their Russian sister city.
the way you say Maryland like "Merry Land" always makes me 🤨. Most Americans (or at least Americans from or very nearby Maryland) pronounce it closer to "Meryl and" or "Meryl Lynde" source: me. I can literally walk to Maryland from my house
You left out some interesting English origin names on the East Coast like Raleigh, Richmond, and Birmingham. There are also many more city names that have Native American, Spanish or French origins.
To expand on the Louis-places since I previously traveled through Louisville and was curious about the USA Louis-places: St. Louis - as mentioned, named after King Louis IX of France Louisville - biggest city in Kentucky and named after King Louis XVI of France Louisana - US state and named after King Louis XIV, of France So all named after French kings but different ones, so it's not like a Alexander the Great type situation.
Maryland is pronounce {mair-uh-lind}, also aaawww you skipped over Kentucky completely! Louisville is named for King Louis 16 which is crazy because he's the end of French royalty (that feels like a big deal, no?) and Lexington which is named after Lexington Massachusetts specifically the Battle of Lexington (shot heard 'round the world) when they got word of the enormous victory there, and then also Covington which was named after General Leonard Covington who died in the Battle of 1812 (another fun fact, there re multiple cities named Covington in the US and they're legitimately all named after him {none are named after another city, but rather named directly after him}).
I recently learned that Amman, Jordan was once called Philadelphia. There's also Annapolis in Maryland. It's like Minneapolis and Indianapolis. Diego is Spanish for James, so San Diego would be St. James. Albuquerque ultimately comes from Latin meaning "white oak"
The video is wrong about William Penn "coining" the name Philadelphia. You are correct that Amman, Jordan was once called Philadelphia. However, there were three other ancient cities named Philadelphia--one in Egypt, one in Cilicia, and one in Lydia. The one in Lydia (later the Roman province of Asia) is mentioned in the Bible, in Revelation 3:7--which is almost assuredly where Penn got the idea of giving his city the same name. The ancient city's name was changed to Alaşehir when the Turks conquered Asia Minor.
You're totally incorrect about the name of the city of Milwaukee! According to your Historical Society of Milwaukee, the actual meaning of the name is unclear, it means either "place where the waters meet",referencing 3 rivers, and Lake Michigan, or it could also mean " meeting place by the waters" referencing a specific place where Native Americans used to make winter encampment comprised of different tribal groups.
Let me know if you are watching from one of the cities I mentioned. It’d be cool if we could have at least one person from each city check in!
Denver, CO!
Salt Lake City checking in!
St louis here go cards and provel cheese
Orlando, FL checking in!
Chicago, IL checking in with acceptable air quality downtown and good air quality in the western suburbs. I didn't see any skunks this morning on the way to work but I did pass by a stinking disgusting flag for convicted felon Don the Con Trump. Trump will not win Illinois in this election!
The Dutch city of Almere is planning to add a new district, which they'd call "New Brooklyn", after the US American county. However, Brooklyn being derived from the name of the Dutch town of Breukelen, I have decided that I will only ever refer to the future district of New Brooklyn as "New New Breukelen"
Brooklyn is not a county.It's a borough of New York,the county is Kings County.The borough of Manhattan is in New York County,Staten Island is Richmond County.Queens and Bronx are the names of their counties.
@@David-yw2lv Good to know. Thanks for sharing.
You're saying, however, that the Dutch administration is about to name the upcoming district "New Brooklyn"-literally? If so, why would you want to use the Dutch name for it. Seemingly it refers to the borough of New York City and not the Dutch city of Breukelen which only historically happens to be the origin of it. Doesn't make any sense unless you do it with other US city names, too and you still call New York New Amsterdam.
@@_InTheBin, yes, they are literally calling it "New Brooklyn" (even the English word "New", rather than the Dutch "Nieuw").
And why do I only do it with "New Brooklyn" and not with the actual US American places? Because it's etymologically double and I wanna mock that fact.
Let me have my fun.
@@David-yw2lv, I was just going off what Wikipedia told me, but thanks
San Francisco also has a Chinese name. Most foreign place names get characters that attempt to sound like the original, but San Francisco was and is an important trading and immigration hub for China that it has its own name in Chinese: 旧金山. These are the characters for "Old Gold Hill".
I know it's certainly a coincidence, but it's fun how the characters kinda make a skyline. Like the character for gold looks like a roman/greek styled front of a bank in the foreground, hill looks like distant skyscrapers in the background, and old feels like a tall residential apartment building somewhere between.
舊金山 @cpMetis would be how it looked before the character simplification of the 1960s.
Wow ive lived in sf my whole life and never knew that! Cool fact!
*The Atlantic Coast*
1:06 New York City. Duke of York, King James II.
1:40 Baltimore. Cecil Calvert Baron Baltimore.
1:57 Boston. Boston Lincolnshire England.
2:09 Philadelphia. Philos + Adelphos, Loving Brother.
2:36 Pittsburgh. William Pitt.
*The Midwest*
2:44 Cleveland. Moses Cleveland.
3:01 Cincinnati. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus.
3:24 Detroit. Detroit, French word meaning Straight.
3:39 Indianapolis. Indian City.
3:47 Chicago. Bad Smell. Place of Skunks.
4:22 St Louis. King Louis IX.
4:51 Milwaukee. "The Good Land" In Algonquin.
5:05 Minneapolis. Minnea City.
5:11 Fargo. William Fargo.
*The West Coast*
5:23 Seattle. Native Chief Seataf.
5:31 Portland. Portland Maine.
5:41 San Francisco. San Diego. Saint Francis, Saint Diego.
6:04 Los Angeles. The Angels. The Town of Our Lady of Angels.
*The Desert West*
6:25 Las Vegas. The Meadow.
6:43 Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake of Utah.
6:52 Phoenix. The Phoenix.
7:10 Denver. James Denver.
*The Central Plains*
7:24 Omaha. The Upstream People, The People Against The Flow.
*The Desert West*
7:35 New Mexico
*Texas*
7:52 Houston, Austin. Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin,
8:07 Dallas, George M. Dallas.
*The South*
8:24 New Orleans. Old Orleans.
8:36 Nashville. Francis Nash.
8:45 Memphis. Ancient Egypt's Memphis.
9:15 Charlotte. Queen Charlotte Sophia, wife of King George III.
9:20 Atlanta. The Atlanta Railroad.
9:45 Miami. The Miami River, Sweetwater.
10:00 Orlando. Orlando Reeves.
*Off The Continent*
10:14 Anchorage. Anchor spot for Ships.
10:22 Honolulu. Calm Port.
*Washington D.C.*
10:34 Washington D.C.
Cincinatti is named after Cincinnatus because George Washington was compared to Cincinnatus. Just as Cincinnatus gave up his dictatorship, Washington resigned his commission and relinquished power when he could have become an emperor.
Fun facts: the University of Memphis in Tennessee has a well-renowned department of Egyptology; their basketball team used to play in a pyramidal structure known colloquially as “the Tomb of Doom” (it’s now a Bass Pro Shops); and there is a high school called Raleigh-Egypt with “Pharoahs” as team name.
I never heard it called the tomb of doom, but everyone called it the Pyramid. It also has a statue of Ramses 2.
That's cool
2:43 Pittsburgh, PA is spelt with an h at the end
The way you guys pronounce Los Angeles is even weirder than Nevada.
Pittsburgh has an H at the end! It was named by John Forbes, a Scotsman, in the 1700s. The 'burgh' was a contemporary Scots interpretation of the word 'borough' rather than the Saxon 'burg' meaning a castle or fortification. We Pittsburghers are weirdly proud of the H spelling and it is included when we affectionately refer to our city as the Burgh.
Also because it's the only city in the US to have the H, as every other Pittsburg in the US does not, because it is the original
I've noticed, it always bugs me when someone doesn't use the h.
Minneapolis, Minnesota is a combination of two words: "Minne" (from the Dakota word for water, "Mni") and "Polis," from the Greek word for city. If you've ever been there, you know why it's named this way... it's known as the "City of Lakes" for the large number of lakes within its city boundaries.
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Wells Fargo....
They started out as a stagecoach company, the specialized in transporting money. They moved to armored cars and such in the 20th century. They then found that it was basically a vertical expansion to get into banking and so they did. They also do credit cards....
It would be more correct to consider them a financial institution now....
“Oh ho the Wells Fargo wagon is a-comin’ down the street. Oh please let it be for me!” - citizens of River City, in The Music Man
Alburquerque is not named after the city in Spain, but after a Viceroy in the New Spain (New Spain was the Spanish name for their colony in North America stretching from Guatemala to Alaska and it was around for 300 years, not some time) which was honestly a pretty interesting guy.
New Spain included the Spanish Caribbean islands, Central America (except Costa Rica+Panama), and Philippines. pretty wild how many countries it included, such as the two NA regions of the islands and cenam
@@gunnasinternNew Spain did include costa rica.
In New York state, we have the towns of Oswego, Owego, and Otsego. TOTALLY not confusing
Upstate names are always interesting to me
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico used to be called Rose, but changed its name in a contest held by a popular game show in the 50s called, you guessed it “Truth or Consequences”
Nice video-e.
I have been wondering about these names-e.
Cannot be unheard now that you pointed that out…
😂 Yeah, it’s a vocal “tic” of sorts with him. though I might write it as “video-uh.”
8:29 that "small settlement in France" has a population over 100,000
A couple thigs: New York was originally New Amsterdam, and Wells Fargo was originally a stage coach company. Surviving today from it's Old West pioneer roots. Check out companies logo history. ( Note the stagecoach). 11:46
“Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why’d they change it, I can’t say. People just liked it better that way!” - from Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants.
Kalamazoo is translated from the Potawatomi as “boiling water”, or “where the water boils”.
Jacksonville, Florida (and presumably other Jacksonvilles and Jacksons) was named after Andrew Jackson, but was originally named Cowford because of the narrow stretch in the St. John’s River where cattle could swim across.
Incidentally, the original name of Atlanta was Terminus, which was the name of the planet where Isaac Asimov established his Foundation. There is no evidence that the author knew this, or visited Atlanta.
Fun facts: Atlanta is nowhere near the Atlantic Ocean and is in fact farther west than Detroit but lines up with Cincinnati. Just to tie three of the cities you mentioned together.
Atlanta predates Asimov by several decades at least.
@@B.Huntley_Sharpe Actually a century. Asimov COULD have copied the name, but not likely, because he avoided traveling as much as possible, was not likely to have ever visited the city, and was not likely to have been versed in antebellum Southern history.
@@allanrichardson1468 All interesting points. Which actually led me back to another old friend the Merriam-Webster Dictionary where I learned 'terminus' has several meanings in English. Which I didn't realize, but I'm sure Asimov did.
All of this has brought me, once again, to the conclusion I need to watch UA-cam less, and read more. Maybe dust off Foundation to reread.
I love the new water animation!
Omg! I just got the Atlanta, Atlantic connection. Thank you for the info!
Your channel is awesome
2:08 wow that image of philadelphia is quite flattering living in the area 😭
I just want to say, in the U.S. Midwest atleast, the word ‘city’ does imply skyscrapers or economical significance, but in certain contexts, like this, it can also refer to everyday towns.
Bruh left out Boring, Oregon smh
Ft. Wayne, IN is named after a disreputable soldier. Perhaps a list of derogatory names and words (Chicago, vandalize) would make for an interesting video...
Mad Anthony Wayne to be specific. Fort Wayne in Michigan was also named for him.
Houston is a surname of Scottish origin, from the place called Houston, Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. In Old English, the name Houston, meant the settlement belonging to Hugh. Dallas is a surname of Scottish and English origin, as well as a given name. When of Scottish origin the name is a habitational name, derived from Dallas near Forres. This place name is likely derived from the British dol "meadow" + gwas "dwelling" (compare Gaelic dail + fas). Austin is a masculine name of Latin origin meaning “great,” “magnificent,” or “majestic.” It is related to the Latin name Augustine which means “great.”
Scotland, like Texas has a Houston, Dallas, and Austin (but no El Paso...)
Cincinnati is also an indirect reference to George Washington, who was called the new Cincinnatus because he willing gave up his power to go back home to his farm. The order of Cincinnatus was created to honor George Washington for this act.
Place names fascinate me. When you go down to smaller cities and towns, you get to all kinds of stuff. Even so, they still fall into the same general categories as the larger cities.
The Wells-Fargo company was originally a parcel post delivery company, similar to what UPS and FedEx are today.
In fact, the corporate logo still features the silhouette of a 19th century stagecoach. The connection to banking is because banks in the old west sent gold shipments from one to another as bank customers deposited or withdrew gold coins,
@@allanrichardson1468 Well said.
People who've seen "The Music Man" know this because the Wells Fargo wagon brings the marching band supplies.
Fun fact: William Fargo was a native of Buffalo NY and mayor for a time. Buffalo, like Dallas, has a muddled name origin.
It is a common legend that Orlando FL was named after a soldier, however there has been another account that Orlando was named after the character from Shakespeare play As You Like It by a judge in the mid 1800s. There are actually 4 different stories on how Orlando got its name.
Interesting thing about Nashville: the name was also used for a splintering of what is now the city of Nashua, New Hampshire. Residents of the northern half, disgruntled at the town hall being built south of the Nashua River, formed their own separate town named Nashville. Once the Boston and Lowell Railroad rolled in, the two halves of the city made amends and reunified with the chartering of Nashua as a city. It is now the second-largest city in New Hampshire at a population of ~91k
In part 2, I suggest either Tulsa or Guthrie for Oklahoma. Oklahoma City has been done quite a bit.
For the wonderful city of Philadelphia you used a crappy photo of a building from a show about Philadelphia, but which is actually a random old warehouse in Los Angeles notable for actually being a setting of dozens/hundreds of TV show scenes.There are thousands of amazing photos showing what a beautiful city it is, and you woke up and chose that.
Fun fact: Nashville was once known as Dieselville before it went to WCW.
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Dallas....
I like to think that it was named in honor of Bryce Dallas Howard....who would have thought that Opie Taylor/Richie Cunningham could have came up with a girl that looked like her??!!!!
i was going to be mad if you didn't include philadelphia but you did :). but i must say that the picture you used is the exterior of the bar from always sunny in philadelphia which is unfortunately in los angeles (but based on a real bar in philly)
How tf do you not include Berwyn IL on this list!
The DC in Washington is District of Columbia, ultimately named after Christopher Columbus. Originally Washington was just a city within DC, but since its founding it grew, absorbed the neighboring city of Georgetown and expanded to fill the entire district. (DC originally extended across the river to complete the square, but that land was returned to Virginia)
As for Dallas - I always heard/read that it was named after Dallas, Pennsylvania which was named after the Dallas family from Philadelphia which included Alexander Dallas (Jamaican born) and George Mifflin Dallas former VP under President Polk
Minneapolis is not named for the state it is in. It stems from the Dakota word "mni" which means water so it is literally meaning the City of Waters or as the city states as their primary nickname "The City of Lakes" due to how many lakes there are in the city. Whereas Minnesota is somewhat similar but stands for "Where the water touches the skies" in Dakota.
Patrick, if you ever decide to check out Washington, Kansas. Let me know when. My sister lives there & I only live about 50 miles away.
Dallas is named after Leeloo Dallas multipass!
There's a 3rd polis in the USA, and it's name origin is interesting. Kannapolis, N.C. is (was) a textile mill town named for Cannon Mills, or it's owner. How it came to start with K instead of C is under dispute.
Annapolis is another
@@TechJolt3d But of course! Home of the USNA.
Minneapolis is named after Minnehaha not Minnesota. She was a character from the famous poem Song of Hiawatha. The name Minnehaha means waterfall which is what the city was founded on.
Minneapolis shares a root with "Minnesota" rather than being named for the state. "Minne" is Dakota for water, and there are multiple places starting with "Minne", including the state. Suppose I should mention I live in Minneapolis, rather than being pedantic as a hobby.
how many Miamis are there in the USA?
The one in Oklahoma is pronounced My-AM-uh.
FYI the city of Charlotte is located in Mecklenburg County. Mecklenburg is where the Queen was originally from.
I said on Facebook I'd comment about how I'll inevitably remember my local education wrong... but looks like I'm comfortably wrong in thinking I'd be wrong!
You left out the h in Pittsburgh. Fun fact the city didn’t add the H until July 19, 1911
No, the H was always there from the beginning. The Federal government suppressed it between 1891 and 1911.
@@JRBWare1942yep it was re-added in 1911. They were worried that the H made it look “foreign” but locals wanted to keep the H. There are still some spots in the city where you can find it spelled without the H (like in the rotunda at Penn Station).
The coin for the toss to decide between Portland and Boston in Oregon is still around. The Oregon Historical Society has it on display.
I’m from Knoxville, Tennessee and I like it here
Diego version of James , as is Tiago in Portugueset and Gallician.. Santiago is another version of San Diego
Quirky name trivia of English roots is reflected across southern Pennsylvania. Outside Philadelphia is Chester, county seat of Delaware County named for Native Americans. Then Chester County with county seat West Chester. Heading westward is Lancaster in Lancaster County and York in York County, while in England York is on the east and Lancaster on the west. Since the Courthouses in York and Lancaster fought over seat of the Continental Congress in 1777 as the British visited Philadelphia, it could be considered the final battle between the House of York and House of Lancaster in the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487) 😆.
Further west across southern Pennsylvania is Bedford in Bedford County and Somerset in Somerset County. Near the southwest corner of the state is Washington in Washington County (slightly north, nobody puts General Washington in the corner). So some of the county names takes us through history from the Native American heritage to the British colonial era and ends with George Washington.
can you up your volume, compared to the ads you are nearly silent
If I remember correctly, Livermore was named after its founder, Robert E. Livermore. I could be wrong though, since we never really studied the history of our town nor the other towns and cities within Livermore Valley. (This is from Livermore, California, U.S.A., btw.)
3:40 Indianapolis MENTIONED!!!!🌽🏎️🏁🏀🦅
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You need to continue out on LA. LA is short for what you said, but what you said is short or basically an entire paragraph. Guinness World records will tell you what it is, since it's initials are the shortest form of a longer name.
Also, the name comes from what is written on a tombstone because apparently some woman died there that was relatively famous at the time....
I would like you to do the name origins of The States
San Diego = Saint James
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Thanks for covering Nashville! 🎸
I am not sure if anyone else pointed this out, but you misspelled Pittsburgh in the animation. You forgot the H at the end.
2 cities i would have wanted you to look into is macon georgia and savannah georgia(and by extension the savannah river
The city of Dallas was named after famed cab driver, Korben Dallas
ppl always skip over the dutch part of NY history…..
2:54 i thought Cleveland is from Cleveland from family guy
Fargo is named after a guy by the name of Fargo North. He was a decoder.
Philadelphia The City of brotherly love, Etymology: Ancient Greek: φίλος phílos (beloved, dear) and ἀδελφός adelphós (brother, brotherly).
Does Well Fargo not exist in the UK. I think is americas largest bank.
Wichita is also named for the native people that inhabited the area.
Philadelphia is the Greek name of Amman capital of Jordan 🇯🇴
Imagine Portland, Oregon being called Boston, Oregon. It would be crazier if it was called Boston because then both Bostons would be similar sized cities as both have over 652,000. I think Portland sounds better with Oregon tbh.
Diego is James in Spanish.
it is? i figured that would be Jaime.
James is Jaime
@@GenMilleXial Jaime also means James.
@@ralexgarcia951 So is Diego
@@David-yw2lv de donde sacaste eso?
Miami may also come from Ohio, as a corruption of Maumee, a river in the Toldeo area; also Miami University in Oxford OH and the University of Miami in Florida.
HE NAMED MY CITY!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Funny how he calls it mary-land as that is how it was originally supposed to be but us Americans call it mareland(varies)
Is Florida, US, named after Florida, Norway, or is Florida, Norway, named after Florida, US?
There is also Florida, Massachusetts, located near the Hoosick Tunnel. Florida's name was LaFlorida Spanish name.
I know nothing about the Norwegian one, but Florida (USA) was a retention of its Spanish name, meaning "flowery." Even back then, people used imaginative descriptions to try to lure settlers and business. Well, Florida does have some nice and a few unique flowers (though that is true of many other places), but it also has aggressive mosquitoes (& no see ums, yellowtail flies, chiggers, and other charming wildlife. Swampland would be a more fitting name.
There's also Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
While you were in both Michigan and Indiana, you could have mentioned Fort Wayne, Michigan and Fort Wayne, Indiana, respectively.
I always wanted to know why philly was the vcity of brotherly love ... because it wasn't because of brotherly love lol
San Diego was NOT named for Saint Diego, it was named for Saint James. Diego is the translation of the name James
Bro really said St Louis is his favorite city in the USA
Just dont expect any brotherly love from philly sports fans unless you are one yourself
I would go to a Cowboys-Eagles game wearing my Bills gear; because if there's one thing Bills and Eagles fans have in common, we both hate the Cowboys.
@@tygrkhat4087 thats just most fans. The absolute ass kicking my fav team, the lions, gave to the boys in jerry world last week was chefs kiss. Also served as revenge from last season
@@Lcngopher I know, that was so sweet. And to be honest; the three teams I would like to see win a Super Bowl are the Bills (of course), the Browns and Lions. The Bills have a lot to thank Detroit for; our founder was a native and twice we've been snowed out and y'all were kind enough to let us use your house.
You misspelled Pittsburgh! The city has to fight hard to get its H back. If you write it without the H, you are talking about another place named after it.
I'm sorry ... but the Alice Cooper had given the definitive description of Milwaukee in Wayne's World. At the time, we were not worthy .. .now .. well .. AC has gone to the dark side.
Sorry. Not in Minneapolis here, I live in a suburb of St Paul. But I am within the St. Paul/Minneapolis metropolitan area.
St. Petersburg, Florida, was founded by Russian immigrants in 1907, and was named after St. Petersburg, Russia, founded in 1707 by Peter the Great. In 2007 the two became Sister Cities, and celebrated the Tri/Uni-Centennial of both.
I think that Petersburg, Virginia, Was also named by Russian immigrants before the U.S. Civil War.
@@rayfridley6649 Possible, but I never learned that fact. I was, however, living in Pinellas County in 2007 and went downtown for the St. Pete, Florida, centennial, while they were also celebrating the tricentennial of their Russian sister city.
Thank you-uh
the way you say Maryland like "Merry Land" always makes me 🤨. Most Americans (or at least Americans from or very nearby Maryland) pronounce it closer to "Meryl and" or "Meryl Lynde"
source: me. I can literally walk to Maryland from my house
Welp that fits LA, Cali too...
You left out some interesting English origin names on the East Coast like Raleigh, Richmond, and Birmingham. There are also many more city names that have Native American, Spanish or French origins.
San Antonio and El Paso in Texas are prime examples.
To expand on the Louis-places since I previously traveled through Louisville and was curious about the USA Louis-places:
St. Louis - as mentioned, named after King Louis IX of France
Louisville - biggest city in Kentucky and named after King Louis XVI of France
Louisana - US state and named after King Louis XIV, of France
So all named after French kings but different ones, so it's not like a Alexander the Great type situation.
Maryland is pronounce {mair-uh-lind}, also aaawww you skipped over Kentucky completely! Louisville is named for King Louis 16 which is crazy because he's the end of French royalty (that feels like a big deal, no?) and Lexington which is named after Lexington Massachusetts specifically the Battle of Lexington (shot heard 'round the world) when they got word of the enormous victory there, and then also Covington which was named after General Leonard Covington who died in the Battle of 1812 (another fun fact, there re multiple cities named Covington in the US and they're legitimately all named after him {none are named after another city, but rather named directly after him}).
Pittsburgh is spelled with an “h”, like Edinburgh
I recently learned that Amman, Jordan was once called Philadelphia.
There's also Annapolis in Maryland. It's like Minneapolis and Indianapolis.
Diego is Spanish for James, so San Diego would be St. James.
Albuquerque ultimately comes from Latin meaning "white oak"
Santiago means Saint James, while the equivalent of the name James on its own could be Joaquín but not usually Diego.
The video is wrong about William Penn "coining" the name Philadelphia. You are correct that Amman, Jordan was once called Philadelphia. However, there were three other ancient cities named Philadelphia--one in Egypt, one in Cilicia, and one in Lydia. The one in Lydia (later the Roman province of Asia) is mentioned in the Bible, in Revelation 3:7--which is almost assuredly where Penn got the idea of giving his city the same name. The ancient city's name was changed to Alaşehir when the Turks conquered Asia Minor.
Chicago is also an Italian slang meaning that you are taking a shit.
5:51 actually San Diego was discovered in 1904 by the Germans. And roughly translated means whales vagina 😂
You're totally incorrect about the name of the city of Milwaukee! According to your Historical Society of Milwaukee, the actual meaning of the name is unclear, it means either "place where the waters meet",referencing 3 rivers, and Lake Michigan, or it could also mean " meeting place by the waters" referencing a specific place where Native Americans used to make winter encampment comprised of different tribal groups.
The origin is obvious but to not include the 7th largest American city in here - San Antonio, Tx - is a blunder.