Yeah, I think a lot of Americans, unless they live right here, are like "Pennsylvania, New York, mumblemumble Maine?" There are too many tiny states in there. When I was a kid and had a jigsaw puzzle of all the states, the northeast was just one big piece, I guess because the little states would be a choking hazard.
I will also say that most Americans have no idea how far Canada extends out beyond Maine. Our mental map is that you are directly north of us, which works in most of the country, but there is WAY more land in the southeastern portion of Canada than we think! My eyes were opened to this years ago when there was a guy from Nova Scotia in my WoW guild, which led to my discovery that there are more time zones to the east of Eastern!! It's not just all ocean until you hit GMT! :o
"vermont" sounds like the name of a state that belongs in the zone around where wisconsin and minnesota are, whatever that region is called
We call it the Upper Midwest! The name Vermont is French... sort of. We used to be part of the French colony that became Quebec, and we do still have a lot of people of French descent here, but the word Vermont seems to have been coined by the English when they took control of the area later in an attempt to give us some kind of "authentic" French name based on the English name Green Mountains. But the Upper Midwest states all have names that are attempts to transliterate Indigenous place names, I believe.
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I will also say that most Americans have no idea how far Canada extends out beyond Maine. Our mental map is that you are directly north of us, which works in most of the country, but there is WAY more land in the southeastern portion of Canada than we think! My eyes were opened to this years ago when there was a guy from Nova Scotia in my WoW guild, which led to my discovery that there are more time zones to the east of Eastern!! It's not just all ocean until you hit GMT! :o
We call it the Upper Midwest! The name Vermont is French... sort of. We used to be part of the French colony that became Quebec, and we do still have a lot of people of French descent here, but the word Vermont seems to have been coined by the English when they took control of the area later in an attempt to give us some kind of "authentic" French name based on the English name Green Mountains. But the Upper Midwest states all have names that are attempts to transliterate Indigenous place names, I believe.