As an American this is something I've always noticed, it's either a major European city or literally any size British town or city and also that British town with a new in front. There are a ton of Budapests in the US for example, I might be wrong but we might even have a bigger Budapest than the real Budapest. And everywhere I go there's a Berlin. You get a Berlin! You get a Berlin! Every state gets a Berlin!
Worcester, MA, is pronounced almost exactly the same as a native Brit would pronounce it. People with the Boston accent even drop the Rs like you so "wus-tah" it is.
"Hello, and welcome to 'Toycat can't spell city names'!" Still, 1,165 is impressive, even though most if it was simply because so many states/provinces share the same city name.
A couple more for future reference: The big one is Eureka. There are tons of these. Also Lee (as in Robert E. Lee). Super obscure. I tried these and got serious rarity cred. In Alaska, Chicken, Eagle, Klukwan, Tenakee Springs. And may I suggest Adak for the most remote.
Not Whitejacket, but Whitehorse I think you meant in northern canada. ;) Also, I think the city you talked about being memed on that you missed might be Baltimore?
Some big ones he forgot (correct me if I'm wrong): Baltimore, Denver, Knoxville, Memphis, Savannah, Little Rock, Tucson, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Anaheim, Long Beach, Oakland, Aurora, Bakersfield, Wichita, Mesa, Omaha, Virginia Beach, El Paso, Colorado Springs, Louisville.
Hearing how close you got with some of the Canadian cities was pretty fun. It’s Prince George and Whitehorse. Also there are very few cities in Manitoba aside from Winnipeg.
1:50 yeah, right after I saw your Video, I made an attempt my self, and there I entered Santa Maria. I thought of Santa Maria (Val Müstair) in Switzerland. It didn't register it (probably because it's a part of a bigger county) but instead, it registered 58 Villages in Italy, called Santa Maria.
In Spanish if you hear the H sound in a word its spelt with a J. Except in Mexico...where the grammatical rules of spanish become peculiar because of the indigenous influence. In Mexico if a word has the H sound its either spelt with a J or an X depending on the origin of the word. If you have an X at the start of a word its either pronounced as -H. example the town of Xalapa Pronounced as Ha•la•pa -ts. example in the name Xochitl Pronounced as Tso•chee•tul -sh. example in the name Xochitl Pronounced as Sho•chee•tul I didn't make the rules, I just follow them 😢
Random ones I know due to TV, Billings and Bozeman Montana, Bismarck North Dakota. Others from travels in Canada that always stick, Cochrane, Leduc, Coldlake, Kamloops, Whitehorse, Drumheller, Moose Jaw and my personal favourite, Medicine Hat!
Is the Fun Fact that the city of Philadelphia was named for the cream cheese brand, or that Toycat _thinks_ the city was named for the cream cheese brand? Because I'm pretty sure the city was actually named for the Philly Cheesesteak sandwich instead.
There's also Hershey in PA (like Cadbury in UK?) Or, for tobacco you've got Salem and Winston. Also think about sports teams and that will come up with lots of names. That's why I recognize so many UK cities from soccer (football).
I'm from a subburb of DC in Virginia, right next to alexandria, and even tho it's wrong I love that you said Virginia has DC and DC has Alexandria. Also it feels weird that you know where the CIA is, most people around here don't know the CIA is in langley even if they drive past it every day. Most people just know the pentagon is in Arlington. Edit: it says you got Langley, Washington, that's weird it's also a subburb if DC in Virginia. Maybe that's some other Langley in Washingtin state.
As a man who lives near Abbotsford, BC I’m surprised you guessed it, and yes it does have an airport, a small one that is. Also I’m surprised many have heard of Squamish but I guess a lot of tourists know about it because it’s between Vancouver and Whistler.
Not sure if your goona see this but I live in Spokane and I can confirm it’s definitely something you should see, it has such a small town vibe for how many people live here.
In Mexico you would get a lot of cities begining with "Heroica", there are lots of cities which official name starts with heroic because it some grand last stand or a great victory in some of the many wars we had in our first century of independence happened in that city. The most important being "La Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza" or Puebla for short, the city where we gave a bloddy nose to the Frenchs in the 1860s.
New tip Use allot of San …….. like San Pedro, San Francisco, San Jose etc. Also the english variant St ……. Like St Paul, St George, etc. Also spam allot of european cities. Doesn’t matter which. They even have Rotterdam, Warsaw, Moscow etc
Huntsville (aka the Rocket City) was the one in Alabama you mentioned but couldn't remember. One of (if not the highest) engineers per capita for a US city.
funny he said Odessa here but didn't get Odessa in the European one, he actually didn't get many Ukrainian cities, and because of certain events going on at the moment, we know far more Ukrainian cities than would normally.
still not too impressive, but better than the previous video at least lol! highly looking forward to seeing what you think about country number 50. your political ramblings on complex topics are far more impressive than your spelling or geography ability lol
As someone from Michigan, the fact that you can only name Detroit and Flint (which is probably true of a lot of people) makes me so sad. You should visit, but when you do, I would recommend actually going to Chicago right after Labor Day (First Monday in September), then driving up to Michigan and going up the West Coast of the state. There are so many great towns and the Lake Michigan lakeshore in Michigan has a lot of great beaches, and the water in Lake Michigan is warmest in September, since it's had time to warm up all summer, and it still feels like summer, at least in the Southern part of the Lower Peninsula, and the huge numbers of tourists are gone after Labor Day. There's New Buffalo, St. Joseph, South Haven, Douglas/Saugatuck, Holland, Grand Haven, Ludington, Empire, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and Glen Arbor, around the "pinky" and over to Traverse City, up to Petoskey and Mackinaw City. Then, there's Mackinac Island (Mackinac is pronounced the same as Mackinaw, not sure why it's spelled differently), and you can venture across the bridge to the Upper Peninsula for a real wilderness adventure. This is a heavily forested area of the country, with waterfalls and natural beauty. If you were feeling very adventurous, you could go all the way around Lake Michigan through Wisconsin on your way back to Chicago. But if you were going to go back through Wisconsin, you'd definitely want to see Pictured Rocks, the Upper and Lower Tahquamenon Falls. There's also Whitefish Point, where the Shipwreck Museum is located, although that's further East compared to Pictured Rocks.
Martha's Vineyard didn't show up because it isn't a singular town but rather the island, on which 3 separate towns sit. There is however, a Martha's Vineyard Commission, which along with the Cape Cod Regional Government (Barnstable County), are the only bits of Massachusetts with a regional/county government of any note (of which only Cape Cod is sometimes inclined to use the county moniker, which should say enough on its own about how much we think of counties here).
Quebec is in Latin American is the most real thing you've ever said, but it was topped when my Muslim professor said "In the United States, everyone is a Protestant, including atheists, Catholics and Muslims"
I live in Maine and the major cities in the Acadia region are bar harbor, freeport, the Portland Cumberland area aswell I've no idea a major city starting with "M"
Visiting a place with dubious claim to being a country might still make a 50th country, depending on if you've visited the other country it could be before. For example, visiting Taiwan would still be a 50th country if you don't count is as a country, as long as you've not visited any China before.
25:44 Ironically there are in fact two "Kansas City"s: Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO. Same name, but two different states, and separate local governments.
The world one is interesting. When I just tried to write city names I could remember I got mostly Europe and USA/Canada + some of the top 10 biggest cities in general, but realising I had entered very few Norwegian cities (where I'm from) I noticed that while testing out whether place names from Norway were actually counted as "cities" I started getting more and more hits in India, Pakistan and the Philippines for no good reason. It's very generous with assuming what character I mean when the character is outside the English alphabet; so I noticed i got hits on "Bo" when I typed "Bø" etc. I got a lot more American cities by just typing European city names, country names and even random English words that sounded like something an American settler would think was a good name. But then as I started running out of ideas and started typing short random "nonsense words" that sounds nice enough like Baba, Lada, Lala, Papa, Rara, Dara, etc. I really started racking up matches in India, Pakistan. So just for fun I opened another browser and started typing exclusively short one and two syllable words and after a very short wile doing so I had over 150 cities in India (of around 200 in total around the world). I'm guessing it's because of a shared Indo-European language background and therefore shared taste in what sounds good and they having an awful lot of cities to name, almost any short nonsense word you could think of is a city in India. I got some nonsense word matches in Philippines but the main reason I got so many there is that they have so many cities named identically to other Spanish language cities. I really struggle with coming up with city names in China and most of Africa not even through nonsense words. Theres probably something about the orthography that makes it pretty hard for an European to come up with nonsense words that happens to match Pynyin spelling of chinese or the Latin spelling of African languages. The only city I came up with by just combining Chinese sounding syllables was Xiàmén. (Obviously I wrote it without the tone markers)
It's also _very_ tolerant of alternative spellings and historical names. I got Istanbul by typing "Constantinople" because I blanked completely on what it's called today, lol. Once I realised that I got Volgograd and St. Petersburg by typing "Stalingrad" and "Leningrad" respectively.
I also got a bunch of random matches in countries like Hungary, Turkey where they use a latin alphabet with LOTS of non-English letters, some of which didn't remotely match what I wrote; though I guess it might have matched a historical name or a common nickname. It particularly happened a lot when trying to write Norwegian place names that probably are not cities, containing the unique Norwegian characters "æ", "ø" or "å" presumably it treats non-English characters almost as wildcards.
Why does everybody forgot about Jacksonville, Florida? It's actually the biggest city in the state. Miami is not the largest by population but it's 2nd. Miami has a larger metro area.
''Quebec is part of LATAM'' As a Quebecois this is music to my ears, but still controversial because we are unfortunately not a true full country with full control of our borders and politics.
Fun fact, America has is so unoriginal that there are states that share city names. For example there are two Woodbury, New Yorks, one in Orange County and one in nassau county
Well a lot of American 🇺🇸 cities & places have similar or the exact same names as British 🇬🇧 cities or places. Like New York, Yorkshire, ENG, or New Jersey, The small island of Jersey of the coast of France 🇫🇷 that is a crowned dependence of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, New Hampshire, Hampshire County, ENG & many more. We need more creative names over here.
war-cess-ter; im gonna throw up it's pronounced the same as the british, as are most of the similarly spelled towns in new england with the exception of leominster, which is more like lemon-stir than lem-stir (which means most other people are still probably mispronouncing it regardless of which one their referring to)
