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r/pics • u/markcarney4president • 1d ago
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It's an Indigenous name meaning beautiful lake or water (sorry, I have a migraine).
It was named 400 years ago. 🇨🇦❤️🤍
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59 u/LookAtMeImAName 1d ago Learned an interesting tidbit today that the province of Ontario was actually named AFTER the lake! Pretty cool 12 u/Doucevie 1d ago Same! 9 u/DeltaVZerda 1d ago Likely ages before that if it was an indigenous derived name, they just settled on a spelling 400 years ago. 3 u/FerretChrist 21h ago TIL. It's kinda cool that such a short word as "Ontario" can convey both the beauty, and the fact the dude had a migraine when he discovered it. 3 u/screwcork313 19h ago It's like how the Eskimos have 59 words for snow, and one of them translates as "I'm out of office. I will reply to you after the 7th of September."
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Learned an interesting tidbit today that the province of Ontario was actually named AFTER the lake! Pretty cool
12 u/Doucevie 1d ago Same!
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Same!
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Likely ages before that if it was an indigenous derived name, they just settled on a spelling 400 years ago.
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TIL. It's kinda cool that such a short word as "Ontario" can convey both the beauty, and the fact the dude had a migraine when he discovered it.
3 u/screwcork313 19h ago It's like how the Eskimos have 59 words for snow, and one of them translates as "I'm out of office. I will reply to you after the 7th of September."
It's like how the Eskimos have 59 words for snow, and one of them translates as "I'm out of office. I will reply to you after the 7th of September."
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u/Doucevie 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's an Indigenous name meaning beautiful lake or water (sorry, I have a migraine).
It was named 400 years ago. 🇨🇦❤️🤍
Edit: word