• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
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      I think you’re joking but the name comes from the migration of the incorporation of the states into the union. Not really geographically a reference

      Edit: geographically, not geologically

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      It’s the name of the region. The Great Plains aren’t particularly great either, they’re just big. It’s like how the Mediterranean isn’t really in the middle of the world

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        “Great” in that sense doesn’t mean “good,” it means big. You see the same use in a lot of bird names as in the great blue heron or the great auk, just off the top of my head.

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          Are you telling me that great tits don’t have lovely mammaries?

          Yeah I’m sorry I know they’re the particularly large plains. They’re just also several shit states and couldn’t resist the pun to mock them

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      funnily enough, this is probably one of those “if you know, you know” things.

      And I don’t know what middle of what is implied here.

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        Maybe on a purely east west dichotomy, but if we’re using the typical 4 regions of the u.s. : Northeast, south, Midwest and west, then that is not right.

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        Might want to check a map homie, cause I’m pretty sure Iowa is NOT in the captial-W West 😂

        Maybe you meant the Missouri river?