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by throwawaycan 4683 days ago
It has nothing to do with being illegal. That's just not the name of the city. Why would someone call San Francisco St-Francis on any sign, since nobody would know what it refers to?
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I concur. I'm from an english speaking area of new brunswick but we wouldn't know where the hell 3 rivers was if you called it that.
You mean, Neu-Braunschweig?
Which is a reference to a place in Germany/Deutschland/Allemagne/Niemcy/Saksa, right?
Teutonia!