“A great lake deserves to be named after a great state.”
  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    12 days ago

    honestly as a non-American, this would unironically make things less confusing: the largest city on that lake is Chicago and I always have to consciously remember “that city is in Illinois, but the lake it is on is called Lake Michigan”.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Illinois has a pretty small coastline with it though. Michigan and Wisconsin completely dwarf Illinois’s coast on the lake (and Michigan by a lot)

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Yup, I realize that too when looking at a map of it. Still, the only place on that lake I can name off the top of my head is Chicago and several times in my life already, my brain already went “and that’s on Lake Michigan, so it’s in Michiga– no, riiiiiight, it’s in Illinois”.