#113818 - Sat Nov 01 2003 12:07 AM
Re: Strange place names
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Registered: Mon Sep 29 2003
Posts: 234
Loc: Philadelphia, PA
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There is a town in Pennsylvania called Intercourse.
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#113820 - Sat Nov 01 2003 06:45 AM
Re: Strange place names
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Registered: Sun Oct 12 2003
Posts: 262
Loc: Ambala India
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Dalhousie of North India and Howrah are really strange names. A place in our town is named 'Prem Nagar' wich clearly means 'Love Colony'. I wonder how these places were named? There is also a place Yamunanagar, after River Yamuna.
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#113821 - Tue Dec 21 2004 11:01 AM
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Registered: Sat Oct 23 2004
Posts: 1717
Loc: Perth Western Australia
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About 40 minutes away from me is a suburb called Innaloo.
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#113822 - Wed Dec 22 2004 12:54 AM
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Registered: Wed Nov 12 2003
Posts: 2165
Loc: Nebraska USA
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This probably isn't funny to anyone but me, but here goes:
One of my best friends is named Chenoa. (Pronounced Shen-Oh-Uh) She is part Penobscot Indian, and this is, appearantly, a word in some Native American language which means "White dove of peace". It's a pretty name, but very unusual.
So, my husband and I were driving back to Nebraska from Indianapolis a couple years ago, and took a wrong turn in Illinois. We ended up in a town called Chenoa, IL. It isn't even on most of the major state maps, it's so small, so what are the chances of me finding it out of the blue, on a wrong turn?? Anyway, I took pictures for my friend of signs that read "Bank of Chenoa, Open 24 Hours" and "Celebrate Chenoa" and such. It still makes me giggle.
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#113823 - Wed Dec 22 2004 04:54 AM
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Registered: Wed Jun 30 2004
Posts: 463
Loc: Dubai, UAE
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What about Rayonpuram and Rayonpur. Both centers of, you guessed it, Rayon production.
Also Kagazpur (Literally meaning city of paper) and Nepanagar (nagar meaning city and Nepa being an abbreviation of News print).
By the way, regarding the heaviest rainfall thing, it's no longer Cherapunji, but Mausynrao that holds the record. Incidentally, the two are just a few kilometers away from each other.
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#113824 - Thu Dec 30 2004 03:20 PM
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Registered: Mon Dec 27 2004
Posts: 3
Loc: Colchester, Essex, England
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Arsoli (Lazio, Italy) Bastard (Norway) Beaver (Oklahoma, USA) Beaver Head (Idaho, USA) Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK) Chinaman's Knob (Australia) Climax (Colorado, USA) [censored] (Spain) Cunter (Switzerland) Dikshit (India) Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada) Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border) Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic) Effin (Limerick, Ireland) Fuku (Shensi, China) Fukue (Honshu, Japan) Fukui (Honshu, Japan) Fukum (Yemen) Hold With Hope (Greenland) Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA) Lickey End (West Midlands, UK) Little Dix Village (West Indies) Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland) Middle Intercourse Island (Australia) Muff (Northern Ireland) Nobber (Donegal, Ireland) Pis Pis River (Nicaragua) Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines) Seymen (Turkey) Shafter (California, USA) Shag Island (Indian Ocean) [censored]) Tittybong (Australia) Tong Fuk (Japan) Turdo (Romania) Twatt (Orkney, UK) Wank (Germany) Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) Wankener (India) Wankie (Zimbabwe) Wankie Colliery (Zimbabwe) Wanks River (Nicaragua) Wankum (Germany) Wet Beaver Creek (Australia)
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#113825 - Thu Dec 30 2004 10:22 PM
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Registered: Sat Nov 27 2004
Posts: 6
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And the town next to Intercourse, Pennsylvania, USA is called Bird in Hand(just in case you can't make it all the way to Intercourse, of course)
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#113826 - Thu Dec 30 2004 11:02 PM
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Registered: Sat Sep 15 2001
Posts: 1050
Loc: Adelaide SA Australia
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South Australia has Lake Cadibarrawirracanna!
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