Also after wildlife we killed and nature we destroyed to build it.

Michigan?

And Chicago was named with a native word that describes a local onion or something

That sounds offensive

There’s no right way to pronounce french

How do you think we pronounce DeQuindre? Dee-kin-der. How about Livernois? Just add an e at the end and you’ll figure it out. Too our credit we somehow pronounce Cadeiux correctly.

Fortier pronounced “Forty-er” as in “my fort is more fort-like(fort-y) than your fort”.

Ohio: Versailles (locally pronounced vur-sales)

They pronounce it like its French but it turns out to be Spanish

I grew up near Calais, Barre, and Charlotte, and none of them are pronounced how you’d think.

New Niu York

Most names are essentially just landmarks of some sort.

Hamburg is derived from Hammer Burg, simply meaning hammer castle.

Part of Hamburg is Altona, which is lower German for all too near, because it’s really close to Hamburg.

East of Hamburg is Lübeck, which is means “settlement of the lub”, whoever the lub were.

Even farther east is Warnemünde, which is located at the mouth (Mund) of the river Warnow.

Said river is getting pretty wide a bit upstream, which gave the city of Rostock its name (“where the river gets wider”).

East of that: Stralsund. It’s the sound (the water kind) of Strela.

And so on and so on.

Tom Scott had some more info on that

https://youtu.be/NUyXiiIGDTo