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Subject: Re: [OT] Brits try to identify the 50 US states on a map
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 12:46:29 -0500
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On 2025-02-05 10:21 AM, suzeeq wrote:
> On 2/5/2025 5:57 AM, Rhino wrote:
>> If you're in the mood for a bit of a laugh, you might like this video. 
>> Several teams of two Brits are given a map showing the 50 US states 
>> and are then given 10 minutes to label all of them. (They are also 
>> given a list of the states). They made some surprising guesses.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9GNf51_NvU [9 minutes]
>>
>> Several other videos in the same vein show up on my recommended list. 
>> I also saw one where Americans tried to pronounce British place names 
>> (NOT the easy ones like "London"), and another where Brits tried to 
>> pronounce American place names (again, NOT the easy ones). They're all 
>> in good fun.
>>
>> I like to think I could label quite a lot of the US states correctly 
>> but I know I'd have trouble with some. Then again, I'm not sure if 
>> most Americans would get them all correct either ;-)
> 
> I'd have a hard time placing all the English shires in the correct 
> place, or even larger cities like Leeds and Birmingham. And I've looked 
> up some of them on google maps.

You'd do better than me then! I can point to a few places that I've been 
but if you asked me where Lincolnshire is or what was in it, I'd have to 
look all of that up. Mind you, I understand the shires have no political 
significance at all: they don't function like states with their own 
governments. There are really just two levels of government, the federal 
government and local "councils" whose boundaries are not based on the 
shires.

What about the 50 states? Could you label all of them correctly given a 
blank map? I think we're from the generation that actually had geography 
in school and learned that kind of thing but I have reason to doubt that 
the current generation of school children - and maybe the previous 
generation or two as well - got that same information.


-- 
Rhino