# Now listen up, all you sons of bitches. It's Lake America now

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**Created:** [August 27, 2026, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-listen-up-all-you-sons-of-bitches-its-lake-america-now/1032608 "2026-08-27T18:46:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-listen-up-all-you-sons-of-bitches-its-lake-america-now/1032608/41 "2026-08-27T22:25:03Z")

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> [@TroutMan](#):
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> Growing up in Michigan, you learn the mnemonic HOMES, for Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
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> How fitting that the new mnemonic is SHAME.

I posted [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/8282) in the cluster coninues thread about 20 hours ago.

> [@](#):
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> The felon in the oval didn’t think this one out very far. Remember the mnemonic _HOMES_? That’s to help one remember the names of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). The FitO changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America gives us…Let’s see…
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> **S** uperior  
> **H** uron  
> **A** merica  
> **M** ichigan  
> **E** rie
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> Yep, _ **SHAME** _. How fitting!

I learned the _HOMES_ mnemonic in elementary school in Virginia.

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