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sorokod
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What would a native French speaker make of DuPage county?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPage_County,_Illinois
eigenket
on April 10, 2024
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The name of the whole of Illinois is an American-English mispronunciation of a French mispronunciation of a Native American word which is/was something like irenwe·wa.
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