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Devon is just on the edge of the area where the old Cornish language might have been spoken. Cornish, like Breton, Welsh and both forms of Gaelic, is from the Celtic language family.
Scots Gaelic is particularly fond of pronunciations which seem bizarre. There is Milngavie which is "mill-guy", for starters.
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Quoth Jester View PostDoesn't tell me much about how cool it is, as most of that is about its history. It DOES tell me that it has a Tempe High School, which amuses me, as Tempe, AZ, has a Tempe High School as well....which is the main rival of MY high school, McClintock High.
Quoth Chromatix View PostDevon is just on the edge of the area where the old Cornish language might have been spoken. Cornish, like Breton, Welsh and both forms of Gaelic, is from the Celtic language family.The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom
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We have a Bagdhad in Tasmania.
As for funny names...
There's a series of hills on the east coast road. First one, steep going up, is Bust Me Gall Hill. The second one is Black Charlie's Opening (Charlie was an Indigenous tracker who showed the early white settlers the way through. I'm surprised this name is still current.). The third one is Break Me Neck Hill - steep going down. These names all originate in the early days of bullock teams for transport.
Doo Town on the Tasman Peninsular - not really too odd a name but all the holiday houses (shacks) are named Doo-something. Doo Wa Diddy, Doo It Again. Things like that.
We have the Dog Line. That, literally is what it was back in the convict days. A line of tethered attack dogs on the narrowest part of the peninsular north of Port Arthur at Eaglehawk Neck.
Little country towns all over with odd names and odd stories.
Back when I lived in Queensland, my fave funny place name was Wonglepong (Gold Coast Hinterland).
And there are old standby classics such as Wagga Wagga, Wee Waw, etc.
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Quoth LesserSouthernFroglet View Post
Doo Town on the Tasman Peninsular - not really too odd a name but all the holiday houses (shacks) are named Doo-something. Doo Wa Diddy, Doo It Again. Things like that.
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(and now I have it in my head)The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom
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Quoth crazylegs View PostThe same way us Brits can pronounce 'Mainwaring' as 'Mannering', 'Churmondley' as 'Chumley' and when we're feeling particularly mischievous then 'Featheringstonehaugh' as 'Fanshaw'Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Up in northern Oz we have the charming suburb names of Fannie Bay (one of the more upmarket areas) and Humpty Doo (many complaints when the suburb was divided and partly renamed Herbert)
Humpty Doo previously also had several amusing street names such as 'EEEE' and 'Not Street' until the local council got tired of the street signs constantly going missing.
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There is a suburb in Adelaide called Dulwich.
There is another suburb in NSW called Dulwich Hill.
I'm pretty sure there are more than hills between the two of them!The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom
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Reno has some interesting ones...
I live in the Virginia Foothills neighborhood (that one actually makes sense if you are familiar with the area, it is at the bottom of the mountain that Virginia City is at the top of, named after its founder Old Virgini), the next neighborhood over is Steamboat, there have never been any steamboats in the area, there is a neighborhood called Hidden Valley (well, not very well hidden now), Silver Springs has never had any silver in it, the Cold Springs doesn't have any springs cold or otherwise, South Meadows has no meadows, and not a funny name, but Meadowood is a funny neighborhood and easy to get lost in (seriously, you can give directions to Meadowood Circle and Meadowood Circle, which also intercepts Meadowood Court, andMeadowoood Way, but doesn't hold a candle to Neil which has Neil Road, Neil Circle, Neil Court, Neil Way, Neil Place, and Neil Avenue). Oh, and town names, there is of course Moundhouse, Gerlach, and rural Nevada, nowhere close to Reno has even stranger ones, like Beowawe, Shurz, Beaty, and my personal favorite Deeth.If you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song
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When you google "Toronto", you get my city, the largest city in Canada and Ontario's capital; home to the CN Tower, the ROM, the Toronto Stock Exchange, and our controversial Mayor Rob Ford.
However, there are (gasp!) other cities/towns named Toronto, and I'm sure that they get mistaken for my hometown!
Example:
Boy: Where do you come from?
Girl: Toronto.
Boy: Wow, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, home of the CN Tower?
Girl: No, not that Toronto! Toronto, Ohio!
Boy: Silly, there's no Toronto in Ohio!
And so forth.....
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Quoth cindybubbles View PostBoy: Silly, there's no Toronto in Ohio!Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Another weird one I've noticed lately through some trips for work:
-Punchbowl.
-Bankstown, which is neither on the banks (it's set fairly far inland) but it could be called a town.
-Erskineville (which makes me think of abbattoirs)The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Cockfosters in northern London.
It is on the Piccadilly line which starts/ends at Heathrow airport. You can always spot the newbies to London, especially from Oz and NZ, because they laugh when the train announces that it will be terminating in Cockfosters.
I used to catch this train every day for 2 years and it always made me smile.A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. - Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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Quoth Blue Ginger View PostYou can always spot the newbies to London, especially from Oz and NZ, because they laugh when the train announces that it will be terminating in Cockfosters.Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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