Even on this day

@Elessar Don't forget Alaska to Russia and most of the West to Spain too now

@Elessar

And New England belongs to the UK , as well as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia.

@Thinkerbell New Jersey to Italy! Massachusetts to Ireland! 🇮🇹🦅🇮🇪🦅

@Elessar

They are latter-day interlopers. 🙄

@Elessar NYC belongs to me! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@SpudMuffin Isn't it New Amsterdam?

@Elessar used to be, until it was renamed after Eboracum.

@SpudMuffin

NYC belongs to Mamdani now...

@Thinkerbell I'm good with him, as is the majority of New Yorkers who voted him

We can take it back by preserving the leadership, the Roman empire way 🦅

@SpudMuffin Why did you even rename it? Don't tell me York sounds better than Eboracum 🙂‍↔

@Elessar York is easier to spell. We guessed that Americans would lose the ability to spell and pronounce words correctly.

@Elessar Nieuw Amsterdam... plenty of US presidents were from Dutch origine

@val70

Niederländisch ist nur ein Dialekt der deutschen Sprache mit komischer Rechtschreibung. 🤭

@Thinkerbell Well, if you like to go there and I'd claim that Anglosaxon people don't really understand Europeans. True Europeans that includes all the ancient Celtic people who nowadays speak still their native language

@val70

The Angles and Saxons were Germans too. Earlier, the Celts had mostly fled to the British Isles, and fought a losing battle against the Anglo-Saxons. Welsh and Gaelic are probably as close as you can get to an original Celtic language today.

Some of the early Celts took to the Bavarian hills and mountains during the Roman and barbarian invasions. I'm a Bavarian Celt by ancestry. 😁

@Thinkerbell Yes, they were. Now they aren't any more. Try think Mountbatten. Bavarian, you say, of the Celtic way. Ach so, well, I'm very much Lower Saxon German so nearer to Bavarian than you think 😁

@val70

Well, it wouldn't do in the middle of WW1 for a British noble family to have a name like Battenberg, so they translated it to Mountbatten. 🤫

Ach, Plattdeutsch! Wo schöön!

(I must admit, I had to look that up in a Hochdeutsch > Plattdeutsch dictionary.)