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    Which English village has a name that etymologically means "hill hill hill"? How do you pronounce it?

    Question #121449. Asked by queproblema. (May 18 11 6:01 PM)


    eburge

    Torpenhow Hill is an alleged hill, whose main claim to fame is that its name is supposed to be a quadruple tautology: "Tor", "pen", and "how" are all said to mean "hill" in different languages (Old English, Welsh, and Danish, respectively), so that a literal translation of "Torpenhow Hill" would be "Hillhillhill Hill". It is assumed that successive residents of the area took the previous residents' name for the hill and added their own.
    The local pronunciation of Torpenhow Village is /trəˈpɛnə/, though the more intuitive pronunciation /ˈtɔrpənhaʊ/ is also used.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpenhow_Hill

    May 18 11, 6:04 PM
    queproblema

    Ah, you're King of the Hill, eburge.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Hill_%28game%29

    Hillhillhill Hill reminds me of Crick Creek: the citified mapmaker asked the country bumpkin what the name of the creek was.

    "We call it the crick," he said.

    The mapmaker heard, "We call it the Crick."

    May 18 11, 9:56 PM


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