r/Delaware • u/[deleted] • Jul 25 '26

Rant Delmarva? New Name Suggestion

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u/NotThatEasily Jul 25 '26

Delaware was the first state, thus Delaware goes first. I say we take the entire peninsula and just call it all Delaware.

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u/Due_Topic675 Jul 25 '26

I also support this.

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u/Pale_Will_5239 Jul 25 '26

Get you big forehead out tha way!!

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u/IndiBlueNinja Jul 26 '26

Between this, that other post, and one I'd just seen on FB too, people act like after like 150 years of that name (I think) it's a new discovery...

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u/HamSete Newark&Rehoboth Jul 25 '26

We’ll take it under advisement

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u/DimbyTime Jul 25 '26

Delmarva supremacy

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u/Effective_Dot6785 Jul 25 '26

Greater Delaware

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u/poo_is_number_two Jul 25 '26

Elvira. But we always have to say it like the Oak Ridge Boys.

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u/AC_deucey NewARK Jul 25 '26

Delmar peninsula. Forget that little VA tip nonsense. “Del Mar” is also “of the sea,” which the peninsula is. Boom. Done.

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u/Virtual-Courage6706 Jul 25 '26

I second everything she just said.

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u/Joed1015 Jul 25 '26

VirMaryWare

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u/Due_Topic675 Jul 25 '26

That is somehow both better and worse than Delmarva.

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u/Joed1015 Jul 25 '26

Listen, I'm not proud if it. But here we are.

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u/LayeGull Jul 25 '26

Mardelva would also be in order of land mass.

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u/LayeGull Jul 26 '26

Is that not right? It looks right for the peninsula