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Canada
In honor of the Canadian thread nearby, I thought I'd share with you how they came to name the country.
Back when, you know, a really long time ago, they decided they should come up with a name for this north country.
Lots of discussion came up with names like West France or New England and you can imagine there was some disagreement. So somebody came up with the idea of putting all the letters of the alphabet into a hat and see what happens by just picking letters. All parties agreed to try this but most were sceptical of any decent result.
So they choose a mountie to pick out the letters. He reached in, pulled out the first letter and said C eh, second letter was N eh and the third letter was D eh. And so the spelling C eh - N eh - D eh became Canada!
One guy couldn't understand it at first but after it was repeatedly explained to him he exclaimed Oh, Canada! And bingo, they had a national anthem. And the rest is History
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