Nah we definitely have had places like this named by Americans, too

There’s no right way to pronounce french

Ohio: Versailles (locally pronounced vur-sales)

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.

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.

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

I feel like Puyallup had to have been named by a drunken southerner

You’re telling me there is no Walla Walla, England?

Place names in general in the Pacific Northwest. Alaska is from an Aleut phrase. Out of the 36 Oregon counties, 10 have roots in indigenous language or culture.

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

Bayonne, SW France ?

I see Camden in the news, and go through many emotions figuring out which one!