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Originally Posted by badrunner
Is that Detroit's original name? Sounds nice. I sometimes wonder why LA's original name was shortened to just "the angels." Why not La Reina or Nuestra Señora? It doesn't actually have to make any sense in the original language. It's not like Los Angeles makes any sense either.
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It was the Yankees who shortened it to The Angels. Spanish-speakers pre CA becoming part of the US referred to it as "El Pueblo," which, when you think about it, makes more sense.
The city of Ventura's official name is actually "San Buenaventura," but nobody calls it that, to the point that even on maps, it's called Ventura.
Kind of off-topic but I kinda like how the San Manuel casino has re-branded itself as "Yaamava' Resort & Casino." I was wondering when the time would come that more indigenous tribes of California would start referring to themselves with their own native words, rather than what the Spanish called them. Tongva/Kizh has long been the word(s) used to refer to the Gabrieliños. I'm wondering if there's a Tongva word for the San Gabriel Mountains; I wouldn't doubt that they probably even thought of those mountains as sacred.