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Just copped this Mandarin Chinese(?) Shirt for the University of Wisconsin from the official UW Madison University Bookstore.
(lemmy.world)
Sorry buds, not for sale
It’s never occurred to me how transliteration makes a mishmash of place names quite to the extent this has made clear.
威斯康星州
Wēisīkāngxīng zhōu
The state of Wisconsin.
the English spelling of a French version of a Miami Indian name for a river that runs 430 miles through the center of our state