• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s the name of the region. The Great Plains aren’t particularly great either, they’re just big. It’s like how the Mediterranean isn’t really in the middle of the world

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      1 year ago

      “Great” in that sense doesn’t mean “good,” it means big. You see the same use in a lot of bird names as in the great blue heron or the great auk, just off the top of my head.

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        1 year ago

        Are you telling me that great tits don’t have lovely mammaries?

        Yeah I’m sorry I know they’re the particularly large plains. They’re just also several shit states and couldn’t resist the pun to mock them