Names For Countries Or Planets
NAMES FOR COUNTRIES OR PLANETS
I can understand and sympathise with famous cities
Being named after animals eg Buffalo or Phoenix, if they must;
But when whole countries are named after animals - like Canaries?
Or Turkey? I don’t think there ever was any turkey in that place; it’s just
Pure gas-lighting, like calling Greenland/Iceland by the opposite name,
So that later explorers will have to take the blame.
No, I cannot sympathise with Scandinavian names so notably bad.
Maybe they’re permanent names or maybe just a fad.
People in Sweden are named after vegetables : swedes.
Folks in Finland are named after fish body-parts : fins.
Some names are far too long to print for tiny countries. It’s crap.
Such as Lichtenstein /San Marino. Try printing those on a map.
Horizontal names for long vertical countries like Chile or Norway?
Chile is simply silly, but the coastline of Norway? No way !
And USA/USSR need to have their letters well-spaced
Or else all that prairie and steppe would go to waste.
On earth our bad country names hardly matter,
For across the sky are bad planetary names a-scatter.
As example, look at the best-known mound in the sky - on Venus ;
And finally, perhaps everyone’s favorite - Uranus.
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