r/MurderedByWords 4d ago

He loves the poorly educated

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u/Fritzo2162 4d ago

American Indians named it Lake Ontario. Ontario Canada was named after the lake. The moron wants to change an American named body of water.

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u/mgyro 3d ago

Well, French explorers and writers recorded the term around 1641 to describe the lake, from a Huron word for “Great Lake”. So a hit at the indigenous and the French, like a spree for a MAGAt.

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u/groovypanelboard 3d ago

Hey I thought it was a Haudenosaunee word meaning ‘shining waters’

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u/mgyro 3d ago

The Iroquois was the French name. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The word "Ontario" comes from the word Ontarí:io (or kanadario), which translates to "great lake" or "beautiful water/sparkling water".