• lauha@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 month ago

    Istanbul is literally “to the city” or in a way just “the city”

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
      25·
      1 month ago

      Beijing is “northern capital”, Tokyo is “eastern capital”, and Kyoto is “capital capital”.

      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
        28·
        1 month ago

        “capital_capital_final_thistime.jpg”

        (Karl Marx’s revision history)

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 month ago

      The Nullarbor plain sounds like an Aboriginal word, but it’s just Latin and means “No trees” because there are no trees on it.

    • tmyakal@infosec.pub
      6·
      1 month ago

      Schenectady is “the place beyond the pines” because there was a big old pine barren between it and the next settlement over.