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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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kitkat121080

Well beings that I am from Pennsylvania, I have to contribute some of our weird ones like Intercourse, Panic, Fearnot, and Bird-In-Hand.

Reply #1. Jul 27 08, 6:30 PM

kels_76

Cym, we have a Come By Chance here in NSW Australia. One of the strangest place names I have come across is a little town in Tasmania called Doo Town. All the houses are named, called Doo(something). It was a great place to look at.

Reply #2. Jul 29 08, 5:28 AM

sherry75

Six Mile Bottom near Newmarket never fails to amuse.

Locally there is a small village called Catstree which sounds rather sweet and also Badger...

Reply #3. Jul 29 08, 5:43 AM

Professer

Dalwhinnie in the highlands is a odd name

Reply #4. Jul 29 08, 5:49 AM

borisanchovy

Boring, Profanity Gulch, and Wanker's Corner. All those are in Oregon. What were they thinking?

Reply #5. Jul 29 08, 8:23 AM

Cymruambyth

Kitkat, tell me if I'm wrong, but I understand that in order to reach Climax, PA, one has to go through Intercourse. What were those naughty Quakers thinking?

There's a place called Eyebrow in Saskatchewan, and Plum Coulee and Flin Flon in Manitoba.

Reply #6. Jul 29 08, 8:30 AM

sherry75

Am I right in thinking that W....ers is not such a obscene word in the US? When FT decency laws forbid words like l...oser and such like, its quite an irony.

Reply #7. Jul 29 08, 8:49 AM

supersal1

There's a quiz on FT that refers to a wankertank, (a type of vehicle), so presumably it doesn't have the same connotations.

There's an Upperthong in Yorkshire.

Reply #8. Jul 29 08, 9:06 AM

jordandog

Here's some good ones from my state, Ohio, that immediately come to mind and if I think about it can probably come up with more!

Devil's Ice Box, Knockemstiff, Economy, Mudsock, Lick Skillet, and the best one- Pee Pee, a city in Pee Pee Township. The city being named that was enough, but the Township too?!;)

Reply #9. Jul 29 08, 9:29 AM

Professer

BBC look north weather man often highlights odd place names like wetwang in Yorkshire there are so many of them if you look.

Reply #10. Jul 29 08, 9:42 AM

sherry75

Brokenstones and Pillocksgreen and one especially for Cym...

Cym Head

All in south Shropshire

Reply #11. Jul 29 08, 10:14 AM

sherry75

Ugley in Essex (the Ugley Womens Institute)
Upend near Newmarket
Pratts bottom in Kent
Muggleswick in Durham (for Harry Potter fans)
Wergs near Wolverhampton (not The Hamptons)

Reply #12. Jul 29 08, 10:18 AM

supersal1

I once took a detour whilst driving in Kent, just so I could say that I've visited Pratt's Bottom.

Reply #13. Jul 29 08, 10:26 AM

kitkat121080

Cym, just goes to show what goes on in their minds! Here are some more: Bath Addition, Breakneck, Braintrim, Brokenstraw, Choconut, Clyde No.3, Live Easy, Officers Run, Ogle, Stalker, Tanguy, and many more.

Reply #14. Jul 29 08, 10:32 AM

Gargoyle007 Here are some other interesting names:

Pennsylvania:
Mars
Blue Ball
Panic
Paradise

Maryland:
Boring
Accident
Detour

Arkansas:
Booger Hollow

Wyoming:
Dead Woman Crossing

Missouri:
Frankenstein

Texas:
Hoop and Holler
Uncertain
Looneyville
Ben Hur

Reply #15. Jul 29 08, 10:55 AM

Professer

a few others

Easter Suddle
Avoch Pronouced och and home to Penelope Keith
Catlodge

Reply #16. Jul 29 08, 10:59 AM

cydonia325

A friend who lived in Climax, Colorado, moved to Hygiene, which is in the same state.

I once lived on Roast Meat Hill Road, in Connecticut. Every time that I placed a telephone order, the customer service agent laughed.

Reply #17. Jul 29 08, 11:21 AM

Cymruambyth

I've always wondered how Truth and Consequences, New Mexico got its name. Anybody know?

In Alberta, Canada there are two rivers - one named the Bow and the other the Belly. They were originally the Beau and the Belle - named, presumably, by French-Canadian fur traders (les voyageurs), but the spellings were changed by early settlers, most of whom were not conversant with French pronunciation.

The capital of Saskatchewan used to be Pile O'Bones before the city fathers decided that wasn't dignified enough and changed it to Regina.

Reply #18. Jul 31 08, 12:59 AM

supersal1

Cym, it was originally called Hot Springs but was changed in the fifties. The host of the radio show "Truth or Consequences" said he would do the show from the first town that changed it's name to that of the show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences,_New_Mexico

Reply #19. Jul 31 08, 1:35 AM

kels_76

Hmmm, I wonder whether these names came from people who were getting bored with the same old names all the time and thought they were being unique with coming up with these names?

Reply #20. Jul 31 08, 5:49 AM

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