https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Maine
it’s roughly 3000 miles from portland to portland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Maine
it’s roughly 3000 miles from portland to portland
“Stole” is a strong word for the very common behavior of naming things after a favored place or person, or aspirationally with something greater. There’s a lot of recognizable city names in the Americas because a bunch of Europeans came over all at once, but it happened in Australia too (hence names like Victoria and New South Wales) and all over Africa (There’s a Worcester in South Africa, a Sussex in Sierra Leone) but a modern push to decolonize names like that has made them somewhat less common. And there’s a million places named after saints or monarchs.
It’s more a metaphorical usage of that phrase. Every word is stolen from another language.
It’s more that it can get a bit confusing, have had multiple times living there where they thought I was talking about the city in one state and I meant a different one.
“Stole” carries a lot of moral baggage, it implies illicit or underhanded behavior.