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ntropy
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 Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:09 am Post subject: Favourite Place names |
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What are your favourite place names for cities/towns?
As a resident of the Great White North (it's snowing as i type: IN MAY!!!), I'm partial to:
1) Moose Factory,Ontario
2) Medicine Hat, Alberta
3) Dildo, Newfoundland
What hits your crank? |
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CountryClub
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
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Location: China
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:13 am Post subject: |
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Hell, Michigan. I hear it does freeze over.  |
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khmerhit
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, Australia--
it also the name of a bar, of course.
There is, you will not be surprised to hear, a science dedicated to the study of name, including place names. I think it's called onomastics. hang on...
http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:YgmFsROfvf4J:libraryweb.utep.edu/onomastics.html+onomastics&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
yeah--onomastics is the study of names, and toponymics the study of place names.
Deeply cool! 
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he story is told, perhaps apocryphally, of a tribe in Nyassaland, Africa, that took its names from a publisher's book catalog that had found its way into their hands. The chief christened himself Oxford University Press. �Ox, as his friends may have called him, had chosen his name in one of the more unusual ways. Typically, first names are formed from compounds, from saints' names, from places, from personal traits -- in fact, from many things other than publisher's book catalogs.
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http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:djb_9xDmwQAJ:www.langmaker.com/ml0103a.htm+onomastics&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 |
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Aramas
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 6:06 am Post subject: |
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I'm told there's a town in Scotland called Twatt  |
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curveegrrl
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Last weekend I went to Hel, Poland. I had a great time asking "where the Hel are we?" and "What in Hel is that?"
AND in Hel, there is a seal enclosure where about 6 seals live (I couldn't count them all . . . they just kept swimming!) But the Polish word for seal is foka so the place was a fokarium. Hee! We went to the fokarium in Hel, to watch them feed the little fokas!
Yes, I am 12. |
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gugelhupf
Joined: 24 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| In the now defunct mining area of County Durham in the UK there is a miserable, windswept place called "Paradise". It is a huddle of tatty terraced houses set in a bleak hilly wasteland where the sun seems never to shine. With not a little irony, the local authorities have erected a municipal road-sign proclaiming "Welcome to Paradise". |
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been_there
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 7:18 am Post subject: |
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RVN
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| William Wordsworth used to live in Cockermouth, in the Lake District. There's also a place in the south of England called Brown Willy, although I think Willy maybe spelt Willie. |
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dez
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Gordon
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 9:03 am Post subject: |
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Elbow, Saskatchewan (Canada eh)
Salmon Arm (I don't think I'd ever one if it had an arm) |
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Eijse
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lostinparis
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Condom, France
the locals have yet to capitalize on the name though! |
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johnslat
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Ludwig
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One that never ceases to strike me as somewhat odd is 'Turkey'.
I also like 'Sodankyl�', which sounds quite strange and 'Jyv�skyl�', which sounds quite pretty; both, of course, in Suomi (Finnish for Finland).
Considering that some very powerful men come from the general area, another one of interest, perhaps, is 'Earth' (Texas). After all, it reminds me of the story of the child who must write his name on his collar in the event of forgetting it.
What about 'Saddam Hussein' (Sri Lanka) and 'Fuku' (China)? They surely must be contenders for the top prize. |
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Shaman
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:51 am Post subject: |
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| lostinparis wrote: |
Condom, France
the locals have yet to capitalize on the name though! |
You beat me to the punch, lostinparis! I actually had a student back in January from the prophylactic village.
Shaman |
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