Then there’s West Virginia, which is Virginia but, well, West.

Ironically that name has more meaning.

Interesting though

Name something "north" or "west" and you've got a new thing

Like the kardashians

North and South Carolina has always been North and South Carolina, though.

Virginia was once one state.

*y t h o*

A large Unionist chunk of it seceded from the Confederate-controlled Virginia during the US Civil War, that chunk obviously being West Virginia.

rite

Well are you interested in europe though?

This new world thing is far too simplistic for my suffisticated european naming system

I am, actually.

For an American I know a shitload about non-western Europe.

Give me place names and I'll try and disect

Easy one; Ukraine.

You probably know it already

You don't have to be a slavist to know

I’m seeing if you do, though.

Ukraine is an anglophied version of Ukrajina which means "border land"

Literally meaning in the border land

There you go.

Krajina means borderland but Kraj means land but in polish it's country

Uh, ~~Swedistan~~ Sweden.

In swedish it's sverige

Wait hold on

I only specialise in slavic places

Maybe I can pull out a slavic meaning

That’s alright.

Hold on

S(lo)venska

They did speak roughly the same vandal language

and again the slavic -ska thing

Check this out;

Jeg kopjeter en stol i paris (norwegian)
Jaz sem kupil en stol v parizu (slovene)

Remarkable isn't it

Damn.

yeah

That’s more similar than I’d ever think Swedish and Slovenian would be.

Or swedish;

Jag kopjer en stol i Paris