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All cities more populous than every other city north of them (lemmy.sdf.org)

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[-] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago

I was curious about Alert's name, and assumed it was because the town served as an alerting system for something, but I looked it up and turns out it's cause a ship called HMS Alert wintered there.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Also I've only ever heard it pronounced the French way: "ah-LAIR"

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

I wish I knew people who talked about Alert (or Alert as I guess I will now start pronouncing it).

While we’re at it? It’s actually pronounced gif.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago

Wow that is remarkably disappointing. How could such a savage and uninvited place have such a scary name? By chance, essentially.

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