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It's the No. 2 state for school supplies.
Whats No. 1? 🤭
There's no erasing your sharpened wit.
Fun fact - Pennsylvania is named that because it was owned by some white guy (Penn) who owned a literal state sized chunk of woods (Sylvan-ia)
Does the name have anything to do with transilvania?
I’m no etymologist and that’s like a factoid I know, but Sylvan/silvan means woods I believe?
Could be related 🤷♂️
From Wikipedia:
The earliest known reference to Transylvania appears in a Medieval Latin document of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1078 as ultra silvam, meaning "beyond the forest" (ultra meaning "beyond" or "on the far side of" and the accusative case of Sylva (sylvam) "woods, forest"). Transylvania, with an alternative Latin prepositional prefix, means "on the other side of the woods". The Medieval Latin form Ultrasylvania, later Transylvania, was a direct translation from the Hungarian form Erdő-elve, later Erdély, from which also the Romanian name, Ardeal, comes. That also was used as an alternative name in German überwald ("beyond the forest") (13th–14th centuries) and Ukrainian Залісся (Zalissia).
So it seems to be
Can confirm, definitely thought the two words were connected growing up there.
Hello Balloon Kid
Does that mean that Pittsburgh would be a bunch of armpits?
Close, different pit though.
Sure, on the East with Spooky by lake spooky.
And uhhh... A bunch of places named like They were named by a 13-year-old boy too...
It really is funny. Gobbler’s Knob is fun to visit, but much smaller than you’d expect. There’s Intercourse, Climax, and Beaver. Or if you want to get away from it all you could go to Moon or Mars.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Timmy's dad went to a convention there
Well, we do know what kept those things nourished so they could grow so big.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Clearly it was the pencil rain.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Transylvania looks similar, but with turks impaled into the "pencils"
There should be a Ticonderoga in Pencilvania.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2024
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