How Did The Boroughs Of New York Get Their Names?

[@sadvenom7826]

I live in new york i knew the dutch had history here but i didnt know that it was to that extent . You learn something new everyday

[@mimimotor]

The way to live with many cultures a the same place was a Dutch invention.

[@stephenvelden295]

I don't!

[@Saartje05]

It's even a LOT more. This is only a part of the Dutch names in New York. Flushing/Vlissingen. Stuyvesant, Broadway, Wallstreet, etc. All Dutch.

[@Joop.23-2-63]

Maybe interesting to know, state Michigan also has many dutch (eastern part) influences. Townships called Holland, Zeeland (after the province), Overisel (dialect for province Overijssel). Town called Borculo, also a town in the eastern part of the Netherlands. Noordeloos, named after the birthplace from the 1st reverend at that time. Soccer, baseball stadiums and roads named after dutch people. BTW, ever saw the tv-series 'The incredible Dr Pol'? also dutch heritage.......

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@@jasenrock shut up

[@marcg.3333]

"Yankee" is also a Dutch word referring to two common first names used by the Dutch. Jan and Kees.

[@SoooooWhatt]

That's another legacy of the Dutch language upon the United States, whether or not it was related to New Amsterdam! I have heard a Dutch name along those lines being used as part of the inspiration for _Yankee_ _Doodle,_ the British song that inspired a nickname (Yankees) for Americans that is used by Americans _and_ Britons.

[@richardbaker2701]

Australians and New Zealanders call Americans “yanks” and seppos”

[@ronaldarias8870]

nice one i had no idea

[@Ozymandias1]

@@richardbaker2701 Seppos is rhyming slang for "septic tanks". The American military brought those to Australia when they were stationed there during WWII.

[@Twittler1]

Erm, plausible but not quite there. ‘The word ‘Yankees’ comes from the inability of the natives to pronounce the word ‘English’ - the word contains sounds that don’t exist in most native American languages of the North-East. So, ‘English’ turned into ‘Ian - kiss’, and then the French turned it into ‘Yanquis; ‘i’ does not represent the same sound in French as it does in English - it’s used for the ‘ee’ sound. French does not use the letter ‘e’ for that sound. English turned the word into Yankees. The natives used it for the English, the English used it for the colonists. The Dutch connection is correlation, not cause. PS: the natives called the French ‘Franshay’.

[@darreljones8645]

Each of New York City's five boroughs is also one of the 62 counties in the state of New York. Bronx County and Queens County share their names with their respective boroughs. Manhattan is New York County. Brooklyn is Kings County. Staten Island is Richmond County, which was named after the Duke of Richmond, a pro-American British PM during the Revolutionary War.

[@avanyc9705]

What about Brooklyn?

[@Musik216]

You left out Brooklyn which is Kings County..... I'd leave Brooklyn out too, but they are a part of us...

[@metropcs985]

Bk kings county

[@davidfreeman3083]

@@avanyc9705 King county I think?

[@ignacioburkhardt789]

Why is that?

[@DotRD12]

As a Dutch person, that pronounciation hurt. great video

[@Jothamvw]

Broekelen is best pijnlijk ja.

[@doruskeijzer]

I wonder if he even researches pronunciation

[@NameExplain]

Dorus Keijzer All the tricky words have pronunciation sources in the information box below the video. Blame my crappy mouth but don’t presume I don’t research these videos.

[@paulson_huynh]

I mean learning a foreign language is hard

[@richamo13]

+Name Explain, your sources are good, so I'll blame your crappy mouth, but then again, the pronunciation of Dutch is quite difficult.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

Manhattan, Kansas calls itself the 'Little Apple'!

[@moiraswife]

Aww, how cute!

[@KosTis]

It's little apple!!!

[@dianaeilenberg5972]

Jovan Weismiller but why

[@Cmack6025]

Minneapolis is also known as Mini Apple 🍎

[@johnfast1015]

Minneapolis too, the mini apple

[@desanipt]

2:37 She was Portuguese :)

[@Alusnovalotus]

Yes..... but she was Queen consort of ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 =QUEENS not rainhas (and it doesn’t sound anything like it looks)

[@Stephen-Fox]

Ah, Tulipmania. Often considered the first speculator bubble. Fascinating piece of economic history.

[@martijnf4869]

*Proud to be Dutch* And the VOC (United East India Company in English) is universally regarded as the first real multinational in the world and the first company ever to hit the stock exchange.

[@552mustang]

Gizensha Fox Bitcoin is the new Tulip :-D

[@krunchykarim]

Nostalgia, ahhh. Oh wait no I mean, errr, crap they know too much of my immortality

[@Pavidusrex]

First capitalistic and financial crisis concerning tubers of tulips in Holland and in general in the other ex-ten Provinces of the Republic of Netherlands between 1629-1630

[@DenUitvreter]

1.37 "Trust me, I'm not making this up" No, someone else did but it's still nonsense. Yes, it's an interesting story about the first bubble, no, it wasn't of any economic relevance.

[@stekske8654]

...and Hoboken is also a village south of the city of Antwerpen, Belgium. I guess there was a guy from Hoboken on that boat

[@justfrank5661]

I always wondered where that name came from!!!

[@johnbakker4828]

Quite possibly Hoboken was part of the Netherlands at that time, I know that (large parts of) Belgium used to be, but not exactly sure when, and too lazy to look it up. ;)

[@brianthomas2434]

@@johnbakker4828 If memory serves at one point both Belgium and Luxembourg were thought of as part of the Netherlands.

[@Ozymandias1]

Van Hoboken was an important Dutch ship merchant family. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Hoboken In Rotterdam, Netherlands there was the Land van Hoboken, which their family estate was located on. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_van_Hoboken The villa on the estate is now the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam.

[@Ozymandias1]

@@brianthomas2434 Belgium and Luxemburg were part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands Later the three countries formed the Benelux, which was a precursor to the current EU. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benelux

[@redmiller5640]

Names on the Jersey side are from a mix of cultures like New York. Hoboken, Bergen, Paulus Hook = Dutch Weehawken, Secaucus, Hackensack, Communipaw = Lenape Bayonne = French Guttenberg = German Jersey City = English

[@EpreTroll]

Damn English always taking our shit

[@historywithhilbert]

EpreTroll Nieuw Amsterdam > New York

[@leonverbakel3889]

History With Hilbert Hoe ben jij hier terecht gekomen? Moet jij geen videos maken :D

[@timothymclean]

Oh, _you're_ one to complain. Look at the Native Americans! Do you hear _them_ complaining? No, because the English killed most of them! Aside from the ones who the Spanish and Americans and such killed.

[@EpreTroll]

no you have to understand we had all right to take that land. we are a passive folk. the brits took our south africa and we also found australia first man. we were there first.

[@ignemuton5500]

+EpreTroll karma's a bitch isn't it?

[@vinoj8482]

I love how simple, yet amazing these videos are! 😊 Thank you!

[@NameExplain]

Thank you :D They're simple because I have no idea how to make complex videos.

[@vinoj8482]

Name Explain Don't worry, they're very effective 😁

[@kahjunn9427]

"where are you from kid" "Queens" "Brooklyn"

[@adr1xn17]

Hes talking about cap and spidey

[@nas7607]

I’m originally from queens and that’s exactly what I say to see if people get confused 😂

[@brianthomas2434]

All well and good but what PART of Brooklyn? Where in Queens? Also while Chris Evans conceals his real life Massachusetts origins (just as Tom Holland doesn't sound like the Limey he is), he doesn't even attempt a Brooklyn accent. The classic Brooklyn accent, in these days of gentrification, is disappearing every day. It's probably for the best that Evans didn't try to replicate it.

[@chanelmone4721]

Nasif Zaman why would they get confused? Why cause you didn’t say New York ? To see if they could figure out you mean a place in New York ?

[@duelknight69]

You've got heart kid..

[@croww_bar]

"New York City was the home of jazz" - Kansas City, Chicago, and New Orleans triggered

[@Bobber256]

How big are those apples? That seems to be the metric.

[@wavyiann9788]

New York is the home of jazz but Kansas City,Chicago, and New Orleans are the creators of jazz

[@buddabulletproof]

Kansas City? Chicago? gtfo. New Orleans is the one and only birthplace of jazz. It spread from there.

[@astridismybff]

@Terry Blanton new orleans is the home of jazz how anyone could deny that is beyond me. but in the 20th century, New York was undoubtly the center of jazz as that was where the premier clubs where and where the majority of legend musicians moved (Louis Armstrong lived in queens for the last 30 years of his life).

[@thedaily_mangos1547]

@@buddabulletproof trueee

[@evamaynard3021]

Really love how you brought it back around to the Lenape. The whole beginning I was hoping they weren't left out. And wouldn't you know it, after all I thought I knew about NY, I never knew about new augoleme or that Manhattan dates back to a lenape word. Yes, there is brutality and colonization, but there can still be appreciation for all of the diverse ethnicities that make up this city and this beautiful country! Loved the music in the background too!

[@dieselnine1022]

I'm part Lenape, so this is all cool to me.

[@Lars3]

Thanks for making this video. I teach middle school history in Harlem and I will definitely be showing this video to my students at some point this school year.

[@thefluffygames1878]

I'm from the Netherlands and i really liked this video because I never saw all those names and i really liked to see you trying to say dutch words.... I never thought dutch was that hard of a language for people from england till now!!!

[@lolah3838]

When I was in the Netherlands, knowing English and basic German, I found the Dutch language almost entirely understandable. My friend who had no German, found it much more challenging.

[@stephenscull901]

I lived in Manhattan and in Peekskill, Westchester County to the north of the city. You will find many Dutch locations along the Metro North Railroad along the Hudson River. Names like Spuyten Deivil, Yonkers, Peekskill, Fishkill, Valhalla, and of course the widened part of the Hudson known as the Tappan Zee. At Sleepy Hollow the Dutch Reformed Church of the 16th Century still stands and in its churchyard are lots of graves of Dutch people with inscriptions like “Hier leyd begraven” (here lies buried).

[@basilmarasco1975]

Also, that major street in Lower Manhattan named "Bowery." "Bowery" comes from the Dutch word "bouwerie", meaning "farm."

[@stefanbrandes1519]

Boerderij is farm in Dutch. Bouwerie idk what it means but Bouw(en) is to build

[@basilmarasco1975]

@@stefanbrandes1519 Thank you. (Danke!)

[@peterdevalk7929]

@@basilmarasco1975 Bouwerij is Dutch for farm or even lease farm.

[@edski8536]

The 'bowels' of Manhattan

[@basilmarasco1975]

@@edski8536 My favorite parts of Manhattan ... East Village, lower Sixth Avenue, Chinatown, Little Italy, Washington Square, the Battery.

[@JoblessMusic]

I'm glad you included the Bronx. A majority of tourists tend to believe NYC is just Manhattan, when in fact the Bronx, Staten Island, Queens, and Brooklyn are part of the city too.

[@atata2512]

What? The Bronx is worldwide famous for being scenario of a lot of movies

[@Qboro66]

Staten Island to a lesser extent. That's Trump country out there.

[@michaeljensen2013]

I'm from Queens and me and my friends would always say "do you want to go to the city" which meant Manhattan.

[@JPQFilms]

Jobless Music Staten Island isn’t worth visiting besides the ferry

[@Goblinhandler]

Michael Jensen where my Queens boys at

[@pavan923]

SpongeBob: Hey Patrick, guess what I am! Patrick: Nothing? SpongeBob: No, I'm Staten Island! Patrick: *What's the difference?*

[@punchpills6008]

oof that hurt

[@ainsleyjames4886]

Well, not really. It's only known for a boat. And blame the city government for neglecting it.

[@buckzbandit2292]

If they had more mta trains running through Staten island to Queens , bronx , Manhattan and Brooklyn , they wouldn't be so irrelevant

[@zaprese]

Is that because its poor?

[@ronthunders6124]

Pav's Reich I’m not from the east coast s9 I don’t get why Staten Island is always made fun of? I’m not being a wise ass, I really wanna know

[@SupaEMT134]

*Finally, thank you!* A channel that _correctly_ references "The Bronx" instead of the oftentimes used "Bronx"

[@TheStarswearee]

Techailly Bronx is the name of the county that the bronx is conterminus with.

[@mingfanzhang8927]

Woke

[@SupaEMT134]

@karaqakkzl Wrong

[@publicminx]

@SupaEMT: quite similar to a district/borough in Berlin which is called 'Der Wedding', 'The Wedding' (named after the nobility Rudolf de Weddinghe) and many ppl dont like it if it is just shorten to 'Wedding'. And its also 'one lives im Wedding' not 'in Wedding' (in German the difference is 'im' (= like inside or 'in the name of' etc.) and 'in' is more generic and similar to the English 'in' ...

[@jimlaguardia8185]

As a native of NYC, I first became aware of the term The Big Apple in the early 60s, a decade before you claim the term was revived.

[@IAmTheAnswerer]

Some corrections (From a New Yorker!). Queens County is larger (square miles) than Kings County. Kings County has the highest population in the 5 boroughs. Kings County does not share a border with Brooklyn - Kings County is Brooklyn. St. Lawrence County is New York State's largest county by square miles.

[@snowfloofcathug]

Yet another great video of yours ^-^ and did you say synomynous?

[@stocktonnash]

Synomynous is synonymous with synonymous

[@sylnyc2705]

2:48 Kings County is not the "biggest" county in New York State. It is most-populated (2,559,903 - a 2019 estimate), but largest by area is St. Lawrence County, which borders with Canada.

[@dakrisis]

How about Flushing? It's named after an important port city called Vlissingen in the dutch province of Zeeland. That's also where New Zealand got it's name. Abel Tasman, an explorer for the East India Company named it after his home province and later discovered Australia (he named it New Holland) and obviously also the island of Tasmania.

[@georgestreicher252]

I had an aunt and uncle that lived in Flushing. As a child, I always thought that was where my toilet in the Bronx emptied into.

[@apefromthekitchen]

The Dutch almost had it all.

[@samwst56]

Should have kept the wall around wall street.

[@kentbenedict2005]

The dutch are good at exploring new places but suck at colonizing it.

[@renshiwu305]

Kings County is the most populous county in New York State, not the largest county. FYI Flushing, Queens is named after Vlissingen in Holland, Bushwick comes from the Dutch Boswijk, and the Bowery gets its name from the Dutch term "bouwerij."

[@kimsiewers]

Until recently, Staten Island was the Borough of Richmond. It is also referred to as Richmond County, New York. It became the "Borough of Staten Island" in 1975 to end confusion.

[@eyewatch2see77]

@Kim Siewers > ALSO *brooklyn & queens* < BOTH technically "long island" ... long island is made up of 4 counties > kings county (brooklyn) queens county (queens) nassau county & suffolk county

[@nichonarpeters653]

I love the music in the video. It is so nice and relaxing. Very mild and non-invasive to allow me to focus on the content of the video, unlike other videos that have so much music it takes away from being able to focus on what the video is about.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

"The Bronx" sounds like part of the respiratory system.

[@spambaconeggspamspam]

Bronchi is the word we use for the branches (literal translation) of the respiratory tract in the lungs.

[@berzerker1100]

@@spambaconeggspamspam 👍 thanks for that 😅

[@weorgegashington9689]

I got the bronxchitis

[@xnortheast1106]

Tubmaster 5000 no

[@xnortheast1106]

Boomer W no

[@Sn1PeRZzBLOOD]

I live near Breukelen, went to school there. Never knew Brooklyn was based on the name Breukelen.

[@maartenj.vermeulen900]

Truly horrible you don't know your own village history abroad!

[@johnrogan9420]

Broken land?

[@maartenj.vermeulen900]

@@johnrogan9420 No, Breukelen does not mean broken land at all.

[@amazing50000]

There are Housing Projects in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn called Breukelen Houses, so yeah.

[@stephenbritton9297]

The earliest of my ancestors to arrive in the new world were amongst the first Brits to settle on Staten Island after the de-dutch-ification (to make up a word)

[@widziunas]

0:51 explains where the Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants, and later the NY Mets and Islanders got their colors from

[@SOS_JA]

NYC and Manhattan are the same

[@conni70]

Catherine of Braganza, of which the borough of Queens is named after, was Portuguese

[@nickgucci5029]

Great video!

[@jasonpalacios1363]

Also the origin of the Dutch word "Konijin" came from the Spanish word "conejo" in which it means rabbit being that Holland were once under Spanish rule.

[@combatjm89]

Excellent video! Born and raised in NYC, escaped years ago. My first NY/NA ancestors were Dutch and arrived in 1648.

[@RealMasterpieces]

Love New York! From Staten Island! Even though my family moved down to FL. I miss you, New York. :(

[@boarderking133]

RealMasterpieces same here. Same sentiments.

[@Opedanderson]

I used to fish in the Bronka river near Elverum Norway. It is common knowledge there but Jonas came from this part of Norway. Norway and Sweden were one country at a time

[@oscarkronborg7176]

1:26 that map is wrong, the 3 southern provinces of modern day Sweden were still part of Denmark by that time

[@aaronbays4]

Always found it interesting how such a huge geographical area, divided by different bodies of water and developed over different time periods(literally centuries separate when roads were laid in some parts of the city) could come together to form one central city government. Then you look at some place like Atlanta, where the city proper is under 500,000 residents but the metro area is 4 million people, with over 30 different local cities, county governments, towns, etc Each of them their own little fiefdom, with different school districts, tax rates, etc. City services are duplicated and run by different administrative bodies, overall its a very inefficient and wasteful form of government IMO. Also the Altanta system leads to a lot of infighting and NIMBY bullshit between these local governments, its the main reason Atlanta's MARTA train system doesn't go to most of the suburbs and why the traffic sucks so bad.

[@Phrenotopia]

Quickly! Somebody fetch History with Hilbert, so he can insert the "Wilhelmus" national anthem!

[@maartenknoops9031]

Name Explain should do a colab with Hilbert. Love both of their vids.

[@NameExplain]

I've seen bits and bobs of his stuff, he seems cool :)

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

I lived for about 10 years in the Bronx neighborhood of Spuyten Duyvil. I still can't spell that dutch name without looking it up. My father-in-law has a painting of Johannes Bronk in his office.

[@Hexagonaal]

The good thing is that Dutch people don't spell that way anymore :-)

[@fablereader4486]

Really liked this one!

[@Cullenfields]

Even in the New York Metropolitan area (Long Island and the Hudson Valley), you can find Dutch influence For instance, Hempstead on Long Island derived from the Dutch, Heemstede The individual names of Nassau County (on Long Island) and Orange County (in the Hudson Valley) also have Dutch influence Also, Warwick (in Orange County) is often nicknamed "the apple capital of the world" and had one of the few wineries that survived prohibition (due to manufacturing communion wine) Also a lot of towns in the Hudson Valley whose names have "-kill" at the end (i.e. Peekskill, Catskill, etc.)...The "-kill" is Dutch for "creek"

[@davidbroughall3782]

4:17 A couple of those arrows are actually pointing at Canada.

[@tomryan914]

"The Country That Fun Forgot". I can say that, I live there!

[@maga6252]

Oh we love our neighbors! 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

[@Yochemm]

Brooklyn's name becomes from "Breukelen". This is a village in the near of Amsterdam. Flushing's name becomes from "Vlissingen". This is a town in province Zealand in The Netherlands, It's also the birthtown of "Michiel de Ruyter", who was a famous admiral of the Dutch fleet.

[@shiningarmor2838]

4:13 Synomonous?

[@jonnyl.a.4169]

I thought it was just me.

[@stocktonnash]

Synomynous is synonymous with synonymous

[@nitramluap]

No. Not just you. Seriously, if people are going to insist on narrating their 'Wikipedia to KZbin animations' they really should learn to read properly.

[@jamesmcinnis208]

@@nitramluap yes, and also realize that the word "iconic" has been overused to the point of making it meaningless.

[@viviennedickinson268]

Thanks for this. Very enlightening!!! I look forward to more🙂🙂🙂

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

Queens is the most ethnically diverse place on the planet. 50% of the residents are foreign born. 140 languages are spoken there.

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

Paul V. Montefusco - Cool thoughts! I've spent many summers on Fire Island. I tell people it's an island off the Atlantic side of Long Island. Being somewhat ignorant of basic U.S. geography, they usually can't picture it.

[@neshmicc]

John OBrien Gardener Toronto is the most diverse city on the planet. Over 50% of people in the entire city aren't born in Canada.

[@hvgades15]

John OBrien Gardener actually Toronto and London are more diverse

[@q3b26]

There's over 300 recognised languages spoken in London though but not in a single borough.

[@sjappiyah4071]

Incorrect, Toronto is the most diverse, 52% are foreign born

[@1joe60]

your videos are really improving. this was great.

[@alejandroblanco2722]

What is the name of the island where they originally had claims before buying Manhattan? Is there any info about any activity on that island? I always thought the history of NYC started in lower Manhattan. Great videos!

[@JoshuaKimbrough]

Alejandro Blanco governor's island

[@jmchez]

The story goes that those natives were just passing by and couldn't care less about the Island. They did like the free trinkets that they got for a land that they did not own (settled).

[@revolvingworld2676]

Richard Head Hard to beleive it I know, but not all the settlers wanted to kill all the natives. Many of them did trades with each other.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

@Richard Head: Yes I believe that. And if you studied the topic, you would believe it too as it is well documented in the Dutch national archive in The Hague. Another question is how the natives saw the deal as for them property had not the same meaning as for Europeans. For them, it was probably a kind of "licence to live there and be able to trade beavers".

[@KeithEdwinSchooley]

What is the current name of the tiny island that was the first New Amsterdam colony (indicated e.g. at 0:13)?

[@StevenQ74]

You forgot Flushing wich actualy is derived from the Dutch city of Vlissingen

[@filthyconnoisseur7945]

I just found this channel and subscribed. Really informative video

[@rodrigofpteixeira]

So "Queens" is due to a portuguese queen, how incredible

[@NameExplain]

Hey all! Hope you all enjoy the video, I took last week off and next week I'll be off to but after that it'll be normally weekly content again, enjoy! And KZbin decided to mess up the video at around 2:33, sorry about that!

[@RookVector]

Hey, I have always wondered why the American South named their cities after older cities in the Mediterranean... video idea?

[@danidejaneiro8378]

I did enjoy it, thank you very much.

[@SWLinPHX]

Good job, Patrick. You always seem to have a cheerful disposition too.

[@frankupton5821]

Thanks for doing these videos but I would like it if you tried to pronounce all those funny foreign names a bit more accurately.

[@Samm815]

I was gonna say 2:34 a glitch in the matrix.

[@ethanbodie6546]

What happened at 2:33 ?

[@NameExplain]

It appears KZbin decided to mess up the video, nice on KZbin

[@dagds4216]

good on ya for explainin :)

[@jeffersonclippership2588]

ghosts

[@mohammedibourki9376]

simulation glitche hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@revolvingworld2676]

Ethan Bodie It looks like a massive techtonic shift happened in Queens.

[@LangThoughts]

Two notes: Lenapehoking covered much more then Greater NYC. It also covered most of New Jersey, and PA on the west bank of the Delaware, including my native city, Philadelphia. In fact, many places in the Philly region have Lenape origin, such as the suburb of Nashaminy, from Lenape Nashamwini, "The place where we drink twice". Second, that map of the boroughs makes it look like there's a sixth borough. That's not a coincidence, as where I live, The Rockaways, is an exclave of Queens (though not of NYC as there's a bridge connecting us to Brooklyn). It is separated from Queens by Nassau County, which was part of the 1683 County of Queens, however, when the West of the County and the Rockaways wanted to be part of NYC as the Borough of Queens, the East became its own county,

[@LangThoughts]

I thought you should have noted the Rockaways as being an exclave of Queens on the map. It is also a Lenape name meaning "Place of much Sand" A name it fully deserves.

[@teddyboragina6437]

why did you circle nova Scotia at the start?

[@brianskanes1]

teddy boragina i had same question. I think new york's barely in that circle lol

[@DrBeah]

That's the Canadian maritime provinces - a long way from NYC.

[@alpha-omega2362]

@@DrBeah yes, but that's where the British sent the New York loyalist to after the Revolution. So Nova Scotia really should be named: Newer New York.

[@tomryan914]

License plate logo, 'Lord Tunderin' Jesus'. Their favorite expression.

[@brianevans656]

"Lord Tunderin Jesus'' is a Newfoundland expression, which was just outside of the red circle. Nova Scotia, which means 'New Scotland', had a different pattern of original settlers than Newfoundland. A Nova Scotia accent is different than a Newfoundland accent.

[@Phrenotopia]

Loved this video and you get extra points for naming and showing a picture of my original home town of Haarlem! :-D :-D

[@aleccoccioli5571]

It's really not nice when people complain about the pronunciation of foreign words. After all the channel is Name Explain, not Pronunciation Explain :P I can also hear that Patrick has a slite speech impediment (me too) so I wish people would be nicer. Patrick has a way of speaking that I personally find very pleasing to listen to omg. Great video as always, all the love!

[@SWLinPHX]

Alec Coccioli: Nice sentiment Alec. 👍🏻

[@rw3899]

He really butchered the pronunciation, tho. Like not even trying

[@mimimotor]

In Holland honesty comes before politeness. They are used to people saying it as it is, they don't take truth unnecessary personal. Neither do they take fake praise serious. In addition it's quite possible to be friendly without being overtly polite.

[@KattMurr]

We have a Tulip Festival in Albany every spring. Its whenever Mother's Day is. The festival starts on a Friday with a parade and crowning of the Tulip Queen. Then Washington Park is filled with vendors and live music that Saturday and Sunday....it was a blast when I was a teenager in the late '80's....

[@whoeveriam0iam14222]

you probably should have used google translate to pronounce the Dutch words and try to repeat them

[@tsunamiwilliams8373]

He should've just replaced it with a robot speaking the names

[@there_he_isis1817]

Fuck all of you. Your pronunciation of English is bad. Maybe in your head it sounds fine. But when you listing to it. God damn it's bad. you pronouns the letters like you would do in Dutch: Ja en mijn Engels is ook slecht. Ga niet zo lopen zeiken. Stelletje zieligers. Heb je serieus niks beters te doen dan over die paar woorden heen vallen. Die gast doet toch zijn best en mss is dat in jou ogen slecht. Hoef je hem toch niet zo zielig te confronteren met je blije bakkus

[@TheStarswearee]

And met

[@ezrabeyman3196]

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

[@namefinder]

I just realized that if people working with horses call something "apple", it might not necessarily be a positive thing.

[@deborahbriscoe-graves6244]

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

[@elliemm557]

Very, very interesting. Thank you!

[@samo1560]

Britain and Brittany pleaaase

[@ulriksteenandersen4215]

Samuel Šiška already made m8

[@kav2000]

England Is My City..

[@-SUM1-]

Comes from a Celtic Common Brittonic word "Pryttain"

[@jonahsmith2708]

Rule Brittania!!

[@JulianDale94]

LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE!!!

[@gaelgarciaisagod]

Fascinating lesson. Thank you for posting.

[@superstructure23]

Make New York New Amsterdam again!

[@jakedeane5304]

Hank that's a shit name though?

[@augustinedaudu9203]

Hank no, we New Yorkers want it to stay

[@mr.meeseeks8229]

Screw that, Make Istanbul Constantinople again!

[@ghrtfhfgdfnfg]

I used to think like you

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

Good name for a new state! #removeNYCfromNYS

[@MrLuvOldies]

Thanks.Very good video,and information.

[@donbradman334]

Even old New York was once new Amsterdam. Why’d they change it? I can’t say. People just liked it better that way.

[@fivoskoustenis6161]

donbradman334 TAKE ME BACK TO CONSTANTINOPLE

[@TheGorillaMan412]

NO YOU CANT GO BACK TO CONSTANTINOPLE

[@kirat147]

IT'S ISTANBUL NOT CONSTANTINOPLE

[@ArjanHier]

+Rita What's an 'Istanbul'?

[@corrigal1859]

ArjanHier it's a turkey

[@fminc]

Excellent, Subscribed. Very concise and accurate.ty

[@mysimpletoon]

im from the BRONX, sarge.

[@MalikaBurievaAtabeg]

here's a bit of an observation that I made. the italian explorer that called New York at the time as "New Amsterdam" was named Giovanni De Verrazanno, was the Verrazano Bridge named after him?

[@Beaglemaster3]

Yes it was.

[@MalikaBurievaAtabeg]

he didn't cover that topic which is why I was extremely confused 😂 thanks tho!

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Malika Burleva - The Verazzano Bridge has that name because it spans the Verazzano Narrows, between Staten Island and Brooklyn. The Verazzano narrows, in turn, was named for the explorer.

[@TheGuyThatDie]

a lot of the neighborhoods also have Dutch origin names like Bushwick, Flushing (English name for Vlissingen) Bowery, etc, and a lot of English inspired names, such as the neighborhood of Jamaica, and Jamaica bay, and even ethnic groups like Little Italy, Nolita (North of Little Italy). Some are even acronyms, SoHO and NoHo, South of Houston Street and North of Houston Street (Houston is pronounced How-sten, not like the city) and Tribeca stands for Triangle Below Canal Street. Such a weird city.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Dr. Thome - I thought Soho was named for Soho in London, England

[@MaxWelton]

2:33 whoa! What happened to Queens here??

[@jaredsmith1998]

Another mote from the danish, lots of the towns in lower NY include "kill", dutch for river. IE Wallkill, Fishkill, etc. So its really funny when stupid town counsels name rivers "fishkill river" or "fish river river "

[@GenetetIncorporated]

Fujiyama = Fuji Mountain "Majdan" Square (during the events in Ukraine) = "Square Square" (which is actually Independence Square, but I guess the Neznalezhnosti word is too hard for Western journalists to pronounce…)

[@MajesticSkywhale]

My town has a "La Rue Road" Or, translated, The Road Road

[@GenetetIncorporated]

Actually, rue means street, but yeah, that's kinda dumb too.

[@samueljackson3512]

Guillaume GENETET DC comics (Detective comics comics)

[@GenetetIncorporated]

Haha didn't know about that one XD !

[@BrofessorHEMann]

Great vid....breaking down each borough would be a cool vid. Kings, Queens, Richmond, Manhattan and Da Bronx all have their own little towns....dozens upon dozens, each with their own vibe, culture, and history.....

[@ridderus]

and most of the streetnames where Dutch too. And the Dollar used to be a Daalder (2.5 guilders/gulden)

[@oev67]

helaas is dat van de daalder niet waar, zoek maar eens dieper waar de naam dollar vandaan komt (thaler plat duits)

[@ridderus]

@@oev67 ff kijken

[@ridderus]

@@oev67 De Nederlandse Daalder komt inderdaad van de Duitse Thaler/Taler vandaan. Later namen de Hollanders de Daalder mee naar Amerika waar het weer verbasterd werd naar de Dollar. Dus het klopt dat de oorsprong van de Dollar in Joachimstal Duitsland ligt.

[@millkee2180]

Most of the states, cities, counties in the U.S.A got it's name from those who conquered those regions. Any city, or state that have NEW in front of it was named after a place before it.

[@the120cxx]

Gonna have to remember these name origins if I do a story ark in New york.

[@lindsayhengehold5341]

Love all five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

[@Eric_Pham]

Ah yes tulipmania the stupidest cause of an economic crash

[@dschonsie]

Eric Pham is there an intelligent reason for an economic crash?

[@Eric_Pham]

Fair

[@epicgamermoments4900]

stupidest

[@gerttjildsen5612]

Eric Pham, the South Sea bubble in the 1700`s was another example of bad investment and blind faith.

[@mimimotor]

Much like the Bitcoin craze....

[@SKULnBONZ]

Thanks for the quick history lesson!

[@newslayer]

name explain is my city

[@kav2000]

godchurch

[@augustinedaudu9203]

newslayer3351 it's Tessa City and the competition shook these countries up on me and I got them off the hook

[@bradleynoneofyourbizz5341]

@3:12 Whoa! Update that photo!

that pre-9/11 shot of NY at 3:12 tho

[@mikespearwood3914]

what about it?

[@everynameiwantedwastoolong6887]

Mike Spearwood twin towers

[@mrmanmania]

Mike Spearwood before things changed in America

[@mikespearwood3914]

yes, I'm aware (like everybody else) of the twin towers. I just don't get why someone always has to reference 9/11 when they show a picture/footage of the twin towers. WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!!

[@corrigal1859]

Mike Spearwood because it weird, I grew up not seeing them and when I see movies like escape from NY, it gives me the creeps.

[@GreyJedi0916]

Very interesting insight, awesome stuff

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

4:12 synomynous? That must be a word from the "Neverlands". 😅

[@12what34the]

Lol that was weird, I was just getting to this comment as the narrator said it

[@robertphillips6296]

I gave always wondered about that, thank you for posting.

[@tejera69]

Nice to see a video without any BS political statements from the left or the right thank you for posting

[@vikingsbuckeyesfan]

This was a good video! I always wondered about the borough names.

[@josephcampese5347]

23 years Wikipedia has been around but Hudaman waits for a KZbin video so he can be spoon fed.

[@teklife8271]

SHOUTOUT TO THE TOP OF NY 💯BX

[@danfoster-hy8mo]

Good quick educational video Thanks 👍

[@skamensch4306]

...and Hell's Kitchen?

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Ska Mensch That comes from English words meaning where Satan cooks his dinner. Seriously, though, I don't k ow the origin, but it was a rough neoghborhood until the late 90's. Woth gentrification came a new name, as often happens. It is now called "Clinton" and is just North of the neighborhood of "Chelsea". Not sure if that has anything to do with the family who occupied the White House at the time (the name Chelsea far predates the 90's, but the coicidence could possibly have factored in to the renaming of Hell's Kitchen). It could also be named for New York's famous governor and founding father George Clinton. Or possibly for the leader of the Parliament Funkadellic, of the same name.

[@petergray2712]

Sam "Hell's Kitchen" was a 19th centruy nickname used for the worst slums and tenements, usually ones inhabited by Irish immigrants. The earliest example is in 1839, when Davy Crockett referred to the Five Points neighborhood as Hell's Kitchen. But the modern neighborhood received its name in a New York World police blotter article in 1881.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Thanks. According to wikipedia, the name Clinton does indeed come from New York's Governor Clinton. It was named in 1959 after the park in the area and that park is named for the Governor. The neighboring region "Chelsea" got its name over 200 years earlier, in 1750. Both were named long before the future President and his wife, future Presidential candidate, had a child named Chelsea Clinton.

[@neilghosh3821]

Its fucking raw!!!

[@VicHD]

ask Gordon Ramsay.

[@KewhoMin]

Great video! I didn't know any of this!

[@morkus293]

I really enjoy your videos but the way you pronounced those dutch words... it hurts.

[@DrunkenHotei]

Forget Dutch, he didn't even pronounce the English word "synonymous" correctly. He said "symonymous."

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

It can't hurt any more than listening to people speak Dutch.

[@cburnett11001]

Uhm... St. Lawrence County is the largest county in New York State, and Queens County is the largest in New York City

[@TheVideoGameTriangle]

by population he meant