So, I legitimately was just one night waiting for sleep to come to me when I suddenly started thinking about Greenland and Iceland since I had just seen a Countryhumans video with them before putting down my phone. But then I started thinking about their names in portuguese (my native language) and how similar they were to their english counterparts (Greenland=Gronelândia, Iceland=Islândia). It was then that my sleep deprived brain started working and I realized that if you change the “o” and “n” for two “e”s you get Greenlândia (“lândia” is basically just a way of saying “land” when it’s applied to country names) and if you change the “s” for a “c” and then add an “e” after you get Icelândia, and my mind was completely blown. I immediately scrambled for my phone and texted my findings to my best friend, and her reply was, and I quote “The things you think about at 3 in the morning.” And to be honest, I don’t think I could have ever thought of a better response.

















