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A question for the USAmericans - don’t you use a different unit place of the ‘Wales’ - I have in my head it’s something like a New Jersey?
by NeoTar 4y ago
A question for the USAmericans - don’t you use a different unit place of the ‘Wales’ - I have in my head it’s something like a New Jersey?
- ElfinTrousers 4y agoUsually one of the smaller states, which does include New Jersey, yeah. But I think most often you hear Rhode Island, which is the very smallest. Another advantage of Rhode Island (and to a lesser degree Jersey) is a convenient squarish shape: Maryland is also small but people would get headaches trying to picture too many of them.
- Uehreka 4y agoWell we have 50 states, which allows us to talk about landmasses of hugely varying size, often with multiple suitable candidate states for any given situation.
- EntrePrescott 4y agoDunno why, but that just reminded me of the term "landwhale" (also written "land whale") which is common enough in American English whereas you never hear/read about it in European English.