The USA's Names Explained | Video Compilation
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Hope you all enjoy this compilation while I finish up moving house. Will be back with new videos on Monday!
The country south of Panama is Colombia, not Columbia. Columbia is in the USA and called the District of Columbia.
Please do the us state video
Happy movin’!
Question: do you brits call PBJ "peanut butter and jam"?????? Hmmm
btw, the reason you don't know what William Henry Harrison did in office was because he died three months after election. This was because of his long inauguration speech, which he delivered in the rain and subsequently caught pneumonia.
Everytime you say Vespuzi instead of Vespucci a part of me dies.
Yeah for a channel that specialises in language and etymology, that was a glaring error...
> 53:44
@@AlisonBryen one among many.
Thank you my God it just takes all legitimacy out of the video
Can't unhear West Pussy now
In Italian, the letters "ci" together make a "chee" sound not a "see" sound. Vess-poo-chee
Thank you! It was bothering me so much.
Reminds me of my GMIL who still thinks you thank people by saying ‘grah-tsee’
Indeed. Kinda big faux pas for a channel specifically about name origins. Also: Guatemala is NOT Guatema-Lia.
Guys, thank you for your comments. I just stopped watching after Guatemala churned my guts. Follow the channel but that is poor workmanship.
Came here to say this, glad someone else pointed it out
Breuckelen is not pronounced as "brook uh len" but "eu" being hard to pronounce for English speakers is probably why its now called Brooklyn.
The jelly vs jam thing is a common misconception. We DO use the term jam in the USA, just not for fruit spread et. al.
What we call jelly in the USA is just one of three related fruit-based spreads. Jelly has fruit juice and gelatin in it, but usually not pulp from the fruit. Jam refers specifically to a fruit spread made with the whole fruit, usually with less gelatin in it or no gelatin at all. It has pulp in it, but the whole thing has been processed so that it has a consistent texture. Fruit preserves are usually a jelly base with chunks of whole fruit in it.
this
You are mostly correct, though gelatin is rarely used in jellies or jams these days. Pectin is much more common. Homemade jellies sometimes still use gelatin though.
I like the USA way better. In Australia we use jam for all of your examples hence there is no differentiation
0:00 America
3:23 Boroughs of New York
7:52 Texas's nickname
11:01 Statue of Liberty's actual name
14:48 New York City's neighborhoods
19:58 Presidential names
27:10 American regional belts
40:37 New York streets
50:42 Native American names for America
1:01:37 State capitals
1:10:54 Fake etymology
1:21:30 Named after each President?
1:34:10 Yank nickname
1:44:55 Orange Man's name use
1:56:01 End card
1:56:11 End of video
Note: I reduced the length of each section's name as much as possible without changing the meaning. After all, why use many word when few word do trick?
Thank you so much foor making this list! This comment should be pinned.
You have done gods work.
Thanx! I heard you'd be by to handle this.😆✌🏻☮️😉
"Orange Man's name use"... Dead, I tell you. DEAD.
MVP!!!
As this was already touched on. Here is some history on the Houstons
The street's name is pronounced "HOW-stən", in contrast to the city of Houston, Texas, whose name is pronounced "HYOO-stən". The street was named for William Houstoun, while the city was named for Sam Houston.
9:59 Fun fact: Bexar is pronounced like "Bear". The X is completely silent.
Texan here. I live in Bexar county. Can confirm.
I lived in Comal county and am now living in Liberty county. I was watching on my TV and when he said "Bexar", I hopped on my phone to come see the comments to make sure someone said something lol
A note on the Jello/Jelly/Jam thing. In the US we also have jam. Here is what we have and how it is defined.
Jelly- A preserve made from the juice of a fruit
Jam- a preserve made from the whole fruit and juice (same as in UK)
Jello- a brand name of flavored gelatin which became so popular it became ubiquitous to the product. (Like Kleenex or Band-Aid)
I dont know that Britain has a product that we call jelly so they use that for the gelatin product.
1hr 56min. this is going to be interesting
I clicked on this video at 1am and here i am, 15 minutes left in the video
@@jacksoncoyer117 it’s 3 for me lol fml
Oh geez I actually laughed out loud at hearing about a guy making a statue with the body of his wife and the face of his mother 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
And then calling it "Liberty." Time to drag out the Freud texts.
@@gj8683 nah. Him and Freud just had the same bug.
40:18 Though not referred to as a belt, I believe America's "Tornado Alley" qualifies.
As a Lenape...You sir have my respect...Everyone knows about the apache,cherokee, ect. No one talks about my tribe! It was a pleasure!
In Burlington County New Jersey, Lenape is well known.
th-cam.com/users/LenapeDistrictTVvideos
@@295g295 Im in vegas :F lol
Here in Montclair, NJ - a place settled originally on Lenape land, the history of the tribe is important and revered. The most popular walking trail here is the Lenape Trail, and Montclair State University recently signed a Land Acknowledgement Statement (among others)
I've heard the Lenape folktale about the crow, a noble bird.
Please don't pronounce Vespucci like that 😂.
In NYC, Houston as in the Street Name, is pronounced Howston, not Heweston as in Texas.
watch the video he talks about that later
Huston is how we pronounce it lol
Yea, that weirds me out every time I hear it.
@@CobeyR House-ton. It was named after a man and that’s how it’s pronounced.
He also messes up Vessy St.
When I think of the New York neighborhood called Flushing, I always think of the old tv show called The Nanny because the family's nanny, who was played by Fran Drescher, lived in that neighborhood on the show.
This is great. Couldn't think of a better way to start my day off than a couple hours learning interesting etymology facts from N.E.
I’ve been waiting for this eagerly!!! Thanks for all your hard work, its astounding just how much you’ve done so far, you’re an absolute chad bro. Keep up the great work.
18:58 WILLIAM HALLET IS ONE OF MY ANCESTORS WAIT
Edit: Just realized he is actually my 10th great grandfather in law. His wife however, Elizabeth Fones is my ancestor
oh wow
Why did my comment get deleted TH-cam?
All I typed was “cool”
So if he was a grandfather "in-law" and his wife was a direct ancestor, does that mean you and your spouse are distantly related? Not that this would be uncommon, especially with 10 plus generations in between, just interesting. 😮😮
Finally able to devote 2 hours to learning about names in my home country! Hopefully I won't get interrupted too often. Thank you for doing this!
Out come the youtube ads
We have jam too. Jello, jelly, jam. All things here. Jelly is more filtered and gelatinous than jam. Jam has seeds and pulp and whatnot. We also have preserves, which are different.
repping the sunbelt !!!!!!
typically when i think of the sunbelt i only think of california, nevada, new mexico, arizona and texas, however i also had no idea there were so many belts and that they can overlap. your etymology channel is so interesting and neat! i think i learned like 500 new things just now.
Dude, you NAILED the ridiculousnes of it all!!!
I'm from Flatbush, one of the six original Dutch villages of Brooklyn. The others are Brooklyn, Gravesend, Bushwick, Flatlands, and New Utrech. The downtown area and other places along the harbor where the bridge was built (like Brooklyn Heights), used to be original Brooklyn village.
I love how New Utrech is without a t at the end. I live in "old" Utrecht and we are known to "swallow" the t at the end of words. Someone from Utrecht will pronounce their city name as Utrech (or rather Utreg, with the guttural Dutch g) so I really hope you didn't make a typo there and if it was a typo it is a perfect typo.
@@mavadelo that is funny cuz it is spelled with the “T” on the end, but we always pronounced it like a ‘K’, U-trek. I guess I’m used to leaving the T off
2:18 Guatamalia
7:54 I guess the Great Lakes have dried up both parts of Michigan are connected now also I see that Montana and Idaho decided to join together and become one state
And New York has finally taken back Vermont.
and Delaware owns all of the Delmarva Peninsula
I'm laffin, but as I recently tried to free hand color a tiny globe... It ain't easy. I have to tip my hat (do I even have a hat? 🤠) For giving it a shot.
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The Spanish actually called Texas, “Tejas” and yes they teach this in Texas schools because I’m from Texas.
This is a great video. As a native of NY I love your explanation.
I loved the parts about New York as I’m watching in The Village of Nissequoge on Long Island(in Suffolk County) it’s named after the Native American tribe Nissequoge, as are many towns and places on Long Island. I’ve always loved the history behind my village and town, Smithtown, named after Richard Smith, who famously road a bull all around the town to claim it, he kept the name Nissequoge for the village and now we are a beautiful little place on the north shore of Long Island, with the oldest still functioning General Store in the US. If you read this far thanks for learning a little about my town and hope you enjoyed :)
Eyyy! I live in Upstate NY where a lot of the place names are very native. Oswego, Owego, Susquehanna, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca..... Gotta keep that Erasure outta there lol
53:33 - Only those in the mid-continent prairie / plains lived in tepees .
I'm dead center of the black belt/bible belt in Birmingham Alabama.
I just always thought black belt meant the soil color, but I'm pretty blind to many things.
WOW!!!! While puffin my vape cart I just found! It's a HYBRID (ind&sat) I'm watching this while cleaning my glass pieces.
This is my NEW FAVE CHANNEL!!!
you talk with the same MANIA I do when I'm really excited and talking about knowledge and all this rad stuff!
I'm always science n astro&quantum physics. The science behind the name and meanings!!!😳😳😳🤯🤯🤯🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍😍💚🧡💚🧡💚🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘
Being a musician/writer bohemian thing... I'm just in love with this AMAZING PIECE OF ART YOUVE DONE!!!
This is def getting multi views and shares!!
Keep up the great content. I am a fellow word nerd as well
Name Explain: "Columbus, Ohio is named after you know who..."
Me: "What? Voldemort?"
"Mana" in places names is all over the Mid-Atlantic states, not just Mana-hatta, and refers to water, not to hills. Mana is actually part of all Eastern Algonquian languages, not just Delaware. So, in New Jersey which is really the heart of lenape territory, you'll find towns like Manasquan, Manalapan, Manahawkin. In Pennsylvania there's the neighborhood of Manayunk in Philadelphia. Manassas in Virginia.
I love this I'm from NYC and I learned a lot of things I never knew about the city. Pretty awesome!
Americans call it Jell-O because Jell-O's a popular brand of flavored and unflavored gelatin mixes. What we call gelatin is what you call jelly. Similar to how tissues are called Kleenex, vacuum cleaners are called Hoovers, cotton swabs are called Q-Tips, etc. Excellent video btw!
Guatemalia cracked me up
Couple of points: Soho is south of How-ston not pronounced like the city in Texas: Hue-ston. And Hell's Kitchen was named after soup kitchen run by a German woman with a name something like Heille. Not bad overall,oh and its Amerigo Ves-pu-chee .
I almost never eat Jell-o, but literally just sat down with a bowl of it and started eating when the "Jell-o Belt" came up.
17:06 Houston in NYC is pronounced How-ston
He literally mentions this correction later in the video XD
Next year for Canada Day (July 1st) you should do a similar compilation
Yeah
I’m working on models of Olympic and Titanic and your channel came up. Very fun listening to the histories of NYC. I’m from Staaten Island!!! Van Cortlandt Ave. another Dutch name. Thanks so much. Great. !!!
53:13 - There were no horses in America before Europeans brought them.
The Spaniards brought them.
100 points for mispronouncing Amerigo Vespucci's name! Names are hard though. Very informative for Americans and people around the world. ❤
Ah yes, I fondly remember in history class learning about the discovery of Guatemalia by Amerigo Vespoosi.
I lived in an area in Montana that was called, The Golden Triangle, because of the wheat that was grown and because when it was ripe, it was golden in color!
You have a perfect voice to fall asleep to.
Ooh the "unchurched belt" ! I love it . BRB gonna go listen to Neil Young's album, "Rudu Never Sleeps"
I'm watching from the Sun/Black/Bible/Cotton/Stroke Belt!
Actually, the 4th Avenue on Manhattan still exists. It is very short and only last for about six blocks from where it originates, off 8th St./Astor/Cooper Sq., until 14th St./Union Square, where it converts to Park Ave. going north.
Jelly and jam are also different in America. Jell-o is a brand name for jelly but commonly referred for jelly’s. Jam is the unfiltered product so anything with a lil substance to it. Also had no idea about the jell-o belt until this video
Some people call it “the states”. And in Spanish the acronym for USA is EEUU
This is an amazing amount of information! I'm gonna have to watch this in pieces or my brain will explode.
"The name in Maine we need to explain" is one of your best.
@38:00
From Central Texas and parents are from michgan.
I always used the word "jelly" to mean a glumpy type of fruit spread, close to how jello is. While "jam" would mean one that would spread and not glump together
Jelly is made from fruit juice, jam is made from crushed fruit. Not hard to distinguish.
6:10 - Kings County / Brooklyn is the most populated county.
Interestingly in the US we call what the UK calls "Jelly" Jell-O because they were a prominent brand in gelatin. Essentially Jell-O was like the Kleenex of gelatin. Jam is a much more malleable like a liquid and spreadable substance while jelly is similar to both Jell-O and Jam in that it holds it's shape but it still spreads and is usually sweeter than Jam. Kinda strange but that's how I grew up knowing it. I've lived in the Jell-O belt my entire life and the Jell-O thing seems to have been more of a generational thing that our grandparents are known for. It's not that common today but it's influence is still here with old family recipes.
This explanation is all wrong. In the US jelly and Jell-O brand gelatin deserts are two completely different things.
The Rust Belt also happens to coincide with the area in which cars rust away in record time.
I live in the capital district of New York and were tulip crazy. My home town is even a Dutch word
Madison Square Park was named for the Madison Cottage Inn, which was the stagecoach stop where you changed horses going north from the battery
Houston Street in New York is pronounced HOW-stun.
That's what he said, even pointed out the difference between this and the port in Texas.
There is also a Staten Island in South America that also got its name from the Dutch. Indeed the Dutch names for both islands are identical---but because the latter is in Argentina it is known by the locals as Isla de Los Estados.
In Oregon North Portland is often shortened to Nopo, or Nepo for North East Portland.
This is legendary.
Do you go deeper into the indigenous peoples of this land.. Whether it's black white native... Interesting videos thus far 🍻🥃
Jello isn't jelly. And we don't refer to Jam as Jelly. I don't know why people always get this wrong.
The difference between Jelly, Jam, and Fruit Preserves is the amount/size of fruit in them. A simple Google search clears this up.
Jelly: Jelly is made with strained fruit juice. There are no pieces of fruit in jelly.
Jam: Jam is made with mashed fruit.
Preserves: Preserves have whole fruit or large pieces of fruit.
Fun fact about the capital of my home state of Connecticut - until 1875, Connecticut actually had 2 capitals, Hartford and New London. Pretty sure you can figure out the etymology on that one
Interesting tidbit. Columbia was a proposed name for the United States. There for the Washington Districtic of Columbia is/was most likely linked to the proposed name for the Union. I is a district called Washington of the land that is at least nicknamed Columbia. The name can be found in other contexts as well.
I grew up near Grover Cleveland State Park and attended Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, both in West Caldwell, NJ.
It is said (in Milan, Italy) that the Statue of Liberty was modelled on the very similar early 19th century sculpture on the facade of the Duomo in Milan, Italy.
1:05:57 ... Your picture of Topeka, Kansas is actually of Kansas City, Missouri.
My friend, excellent video. Just two things. Ano-ny-mous and Syno-ny-mous, haha.
There is actually a difference between jelly and jam. Deuterium the Sentient Mattress did a video on the topic.
1:25:03 There is a street in Ogden Utah named after Monroe. There is one named Adams as well. Van Buren is a street as well in Ogden Utah. There is a Harrison as a street in Ogden. Polk is another street. Lincoln is yet another street in Ogden. Grant is another street.
1:28:34 There is a city and county in Utah named Garfield.
1:33:48 Joe Biden has a few things named after him. Biden Street in Scranton Pennsylvania, President Biden Expressway.
I’m watching from The Rust Belt in Pennsylvania!
Everyone talking about his pronunciation of Vespucci but no one talked about how he misspelled Colombia
Watching from the Appalachian Coal Fields, at the very southern reach of the Rust Belt well inside of the Bible Belt
The only place where I ran into fourth Avenue was all the way down town. By like e 10th St. where my favorite bar is. I was very confused when I stumbled upon it
We have jelly and jam in the U.S jelly it’s thinner while jams thicker lol it like Maple syrup and molasses when compared
Very cool
There's a Soho and Noho in California for Hollywood along with Weho...West Side
I sort of love you. Etymology and history for nearly two hours. Fuck yeah
serious question, has name explain done the video on the states yet because I can't find it.
Making me hella nostalgic for my childhood in Manhattan
There is also a Place Wilson in Toulouse, France, named after Woodrow
At some point Harlem (or part of Harlem?) was called Finntown, because a lot of Finnish immigrants lived there. I think there were other "Littles/towns" too, but only Chinatown and Little Italy have stuck.
Here from the Bible and Stroke belt and it is definitely diet and lifestyle choices for why we have more strokes.
Not all Native Americans were nomadic and certainly not in teepees. Some plains tribes fit that description. But many were settled and largely agrarian. One tribe taught the pilgrim settlers how to properly grow crops in that area, specifically maize or corn. It was unknown to them. Same with many other crops that were grown only here.
Folk is of the "people"
Also worth noting that
Nieuws is a Dutch synonym and (les/des) nouvelles is what the french want from you when they have not seen or heard from someone in awhile. German doesn't use it so much in these contects but asking for etwas neues is a possibility
In the US, jam has more fruit particulates and is a softer consistency. Jelly is a clearer and firmer consistency. Jello is clear and will melt when warm. It 'jiggles.'!
More importantly, jams and jellies are 'set' using sugar and pectin. Pectin is added more to jellies and jams sometimes use only the pectin naturally occurring in the fruit.
Jell-o is literally flavored gelatin that is an animal product.
I live in the rust belt in Michigan. Known from all the salt used in the roads in the winter that rusts out a car in a few seasons. The entire city of Detroit sits on top of a massive salt mine. Salt left from the oceans that were here a long long time ago.
this video is so underrated
Dover is also in Kent County.
Not all Native American tribes were nomadic. For instance, the Iroquois lived in wooden clan houses and many of the older southwest ancestors built cliff houses or buildings of stone. Both of these groups of people practiced agriculture, although they did hunt for meet. The only natives living in tepees were those living in the Great Plains.
Pronounced: _Amereego Vesspoochi_ ( *Amerigo Vespucci* )
1:14:00 - im an english major and i highly disagree with you! etymology is really interesting! you kinda got into linguistics with 'why french is so different from other latin languages'! kudos to you man! well done on the video and little animations too!
Jelly and jam are different thing, what you showed would be jam here too. If it’s got the pulp it’s jam, that’s pretty much the difference.
2:43 : "John Dickinson"
made me laugh so hard
i also realized that the picture above the name is actually mozart
Pro tip: if you're staying in New York at the St. James hotel, there's an irish-style restaunt on the same street and it's so good
I’m surprised that Ireland has enough variety of food to have Irish themed restaurants
@@DarwinskiYT You can do a lot with potatoes: crisps, jacket potatoes, vodka, french fries, mashed potatoes.
I have a question that runs through my mind every time that I hear a Brit say, "what is called jello in America is what we in the UK call jelly, what Americans call jelly is what we call jam." WHAT DO YOU CALL JAM???