On 2020-08-09 15:08, micky wrote:
Yosumight.

Someone wrote that actually that pronounced name dates back to the early
1940's when the last of the Dixie Class Destroyer Tenders were built.
The last of the 5 ships was the USS Yosemite AD-19. The commissioning
crew used that pronunciation as a joke and it stuck. I myself was
stationed on the USS Dixie AD-14.

So after trump mispronounced it, they probably assigned 3 people to find
some basis for his mistake, and if they came across this, they'd claim
trump had known about it and was honoring the crew of the destroyer for
saying it that way .

Trump can be forgiven for mispronouncing Yosemite. He
is from New York. He had trouble pronouncing HUGE, which
he pronounces YUGE. At least he pronounces Nevada
correctly.

It is somewhat amusing that a lot of people do not realize
what the word Yosemite means:

Those who kill

It was the original tribe's name for the US soldiers that
came and murdered virtually all of them. Not our finest hour.

Folks say the word Yosemite and think beautiful national
park, but do not realize the word was not the original name
for the area, but for the murders that cleared out the park
of the original inhabitants who were completely defenseless.

Those same ass holes that did that tried it on the Apache
a bit later and got their asses righteously handed to
them. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of guys.