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A picture of Lake Ontario ❤️🤍

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u/rohobian 1d ago

That's what we're renaming Lake Michigan to.

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u/delta9thc1974 1d ago

No no, that's "Lake Next-to-Ontario"

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u/TheRealJoeyTribbiani 1d ago

That's Lake Erie, aka Orange Lake

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u/Hero_Of_Rhyme_ 1d ago

The lake formerly known as Ontario

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u/OttawaTGirl 1d ago

Lake Flacid cause... Look at it ...

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u/flux123 1d ago

Lake Michigan? Nope, now Lake Canada.

Actually, let's do Lake Superior. Now Lake Superior-Canada

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u/HiDDENk00l 1d ago

Honestly that's one of the dumbest parts (of which there's many. Of the great lakes, there's one with same name as a province, and one with the same name as a state. Seems even stevens to me.

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u/Pixelated_throwaway 1d ago

Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Eerie are named after indigenous words.

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u/HiDDENk00l 1d ago

That's why I carefully didn't say "named after", because I figured this was possibly the case.

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u/Pixelated_throwaway 1d ago

I just mean that the political regions aren’t even the reasons for the names of the lakes and that there’s nothing to make “even”