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    661 month ago

    Cowards and sycophants. But this is a problem I, as a Chicagoan, am already familiar with. You see we have this building called the Willis Tower. But everyone here knows that Willis is correctly spelled “Sears.”

    So you see, the correct spelling of the America in the context of the Gulf is “Mexico.”

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      191 month ago

      Same problem in toronto… We have a building called the SkyDome, but everyone misspells it Robbers Center…

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      21 month ago

      Huh, I didn’t know the Sears Tower was renamed to Willis. Though the Sears Tower never comes up in conversations for me, I’ll surely only ever know it as Sears. So yeah, that’s a great point you make

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      11 month ago

      Oh so it’ll become a shibboleth like how the capital of Ohio is pronounced and spelled “central ohio” if you’re at the rare intersection of cool and ohioan