Subject: Very Odd Place Names
Posted by: Cymruambyth
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?
Posted by: Cymruambyth
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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romeomikegolf
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mjws, Breedon is about 15 miles or so away from where my mum lives. Some of the other villages in the area are Calke, Isley Walton, Tonge, Wilson, and Worthington. Reply #41. Sep 02 08, 12:47 AM |
dj168
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Wasilla. Also I think other strange names would be Homerville and then Turkey. Reply #42. Sep 06 08, 6:59 PM |
Cymruambyth 
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Satguru, re your post #37 - which I only just saw. Avon (or more properly Afon) is not Old English - it's Celtic. The Welsh word for river is afon. Reply #43. Oct 07 08, 9:06 AM |
unclerick
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How about East Braintree, Manitoba. Reply #44. Oct 07 08, 6:09 PM |
| unclerick
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There is a place in British Columbia called Ceepeecee. It got it's name from the initials of the California Packing Corporation which opened a fish packing plant there in 1927. If you lived there you could actually say you were from Ceepeecee B.C. Reply #45. Oct 07 08, 6:27 PM |
toocool4u
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How about Dildo, in Newfoundland. Or, perhaps one of the best, Intercourse Pennsylvania. Reply #46. Oct 30 08, 6:13 PM |
crotalus77
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Truth or Consequences was mentioned earlier . I went to highschool there . There are a couple of other towns in New Mexico with odd names . There's Loco Hills and just down the road from there is Maljamar , which I only recently found out the origin of the name . It seems the founder of the town , who was either an oilman or rancher , had three children named Malcolm , James , and Margaret and used the first two or three letters of each name to create Maljamar . Reply #47. Oct 30 08, 9:58 PM |
triviapaul
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Some more from The Netherlands: Mosquito Bite (Muggebeet) The Zero (Den Nul) Small Pants (Lutjebroek) Dead Silent (Doodstil) Reply #48. Nov 04 08, 5:26 AM |
jolana
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Y in Alaska, the USA or Y in Sommes, France Reply #49. Nov 04 08, 10:24 AM |
Dee30
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Re: post l8 about T or C , New Mexico. We lived there a while and we were told that Ralph Edwards paid the city of T or C for the right to change the name to help his radio show become more well known. And each year he would come to town and lead the parade down the main street. They would have a festival and party going on. It is a pretty little town in the desert. The Elephant Butte Dam at one time brought many sportsmen to fish the waters. However, lately the water level has dropped and I don't know if they still have that many come from all around the world. In Arkansas we have several towns that are amusing to others. Toad Suck near a river holds a festival that attracts many each year. Romance, Evening Shade, Egypt, El Paso, Gum Springs, Tichnor,Snowball,Sage are a few more. Reply #50. Nov 05 08, 9:05 PM |
wdstk
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Bong Rec. Area, Wisconsin Reply #51. Nov 09 08, 12:48 AM |
julicat
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Pratts Bottom , kent , England Reply #52. Nov 09 08, 8:02 AM |
| Cymruambyth
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Elbow, Saskatchewan, and Plum Coulee, Manitoba. Reply #53. Nov 10 08, 2:52 PM |
danjou
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Michigan: Bad Axe Climax Colon De Tour, Detour (village, township) Flushing Free Soil Hell (personal favorite!) Kalamazoo (yes, there is one...) Loud Township Paradise Romeo Salem Vulcan Wetmore There are 9 Sherman Townships for some reason... Some people have imagination, others... Reply #54. Nov 21 08, 11:43 AM |
KING_OF_ALL
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How about Bath in France? Thats kind of odd. I would say so my shelf! Reply #55. Dec 08 08, 7:35 PM |
| aprilkay5
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Intercourse, Michigan...I wonder what their high school's name is and what their mascot would be? Reply #56. Dec 19 08, 9:17 PM |
Valfuunator
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Wow those are pretty weird, I'll get on here soon with some cool place names aswell, maybe Shankville, Pennsylvania? Reply #57. Jan 16 09, 10:18 AM |
cyberhen
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Ramsbottom, Blackadder, Cargo Fleet, Clock Face, Dent, Turner's Puddle, Six Mile Bottom. All in the UK. Reply #58. Feb 21 09, 10:47 AM |
| Cymruambyth
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There's a town in Manitoba called Komarno which was settled by Ukrainian immigrants. I'm told that Komarno means "too many mosquitoes" but I cannot vouch for the veracity of that statement because my Ukrainian vocabulary is limited to five words (hroshi=money, moloko=milk, prybit=hello, prosh-chavay=goodbye and holopchi=cabbage roll). However if Komarno means what I'm told it means I deduce that the Ukrainian imigrants arrived in summer when all of our 50 species of mosquito are active. On the outskirts of the town there is a gigantic fibreglas statue of - you guessed it - a mosquito! Reply #59. Feb 21 09, 12:32 PM |
| raidersruleall
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There's a town in South Dakota called Gayville. How would you like to live there? Reply #60. Feb 25 09, 10:23 PM |
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