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Topic: Very Odd Place Names

Posted by: Cymruambyth

Subject: Very Odd Place Names
Date: Jul 27 08

How about sharing some of the strange place names in your country, state, province, whatever. In Alberta, there's a place called Jumping Pound, which is close to a high bluff over which native people would drive bison. The poor beasts would be killed by the fall and there'd be plenty of meat for the camp! In Newfoundland, there's a place called Joe Batt's Arm and another called Come By Chance. I don't know how they got their names. My favourite strange place name, though, is a place in Herefordshire called Wormlow-under-the-Tump, and, no, I don't know how it got its name, either. Have you any items to add?



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sportsherald I recall the garbage dump for New York City used to be "Fresh Kills Landfill." I wonder if that gave the Mob any ideas... or if they named it...

(I know a "kill" was a stream to the original Dutch settlers- just kidding)

Reply #121. May 27 12, 5:23 PM

wdstk

Conception Junction, MO

The jokes abound.

Reply #122. May 27 12, 5:56 PM

moonraker2

Sandy Balls, near Fordingbridge, Hampshire.

... and there's a holiday camp as well ;o)

Reply #123. May 29 12, 8:11 AM

tigasrule

In France, some city councils have created an association of towns with funny names in an attempt to make themselves known and attract tourism. For example there's Arnac-la-Poste, which (phonetically, not literally) conjures images of "swindling the post office". Other examples: Trécon (very erm... daft). Cocumont (mount of cuckolds?), Vatan (Get gone?), and so on.
Some are poetical, like Chantemerle-sur-la-Soie, Bergères-lès-Vertus, Sainte-Verge, Vinsobres... It almost reminds one of Rabelais!

Reply #124. May 29 12, 8:59 AM

REDVIKING57
Or playing cricket and being hit in the Rabalais?

:))

Reply #125. May 29 12, 11:32 AM

dolly_llama I've been to Hell (Michigan), Bong Recreational Area (Wisconsin) and Intercourse (Pennsylvania). :)

Reply #126. May 29 12, 12:07 PM

SisterSeagull

What about Twatt in the Shetland Isles?

Reply #127. May 29 12, 3:48 PM

Ceistenna

We in Ireland have given some of our villages quite odd names. My personal favourites are:
3. Ballydehob (Co. Cork)
2. Ballyhooly (Co. Cork)
1. Termonfeckin (Co. Louth)

Reply #128. Dec 14 12, 9:46 AM

sooz888

I rather like, 'Playing Place' in Cornwall - There is also an amusing poem by folk songwriter Tom Bliss called,'Middle English and (Welsh) Pie,' which lists dozens of amusing place names in the form of a recipe. Anyone know it?

Reply #129. Dec 14 12, 11:59 AM

alexis722

Pennsylvania: Bird-in-Hand, King of Prussia and Bala Cynwyd {sp?} - NY: Satan's Kingdom

Reply #130. Dec 14 12, 1:51 PM

alexis722

I think moonraker's Sandy Balls is the best.

Reply #131. Dec 14 12, 1:52 PM

ElusiveDream The record for having the longest name of any place in the entire world goes to a mountain in New Zealand named Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu. This is what you call a REALLY long name.

Reply #132. Dec 15 12, 11:30 PM

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