Check it out, the King of Prussia is a town in Pennsylvania. How dude. King of Prussia I thought it might be fun to see what other towns in other countries have bizzare names and such.
There is a place just outside Brussels called Erps Kwerps - I've been there, it exists - but look at the last update date - it is obviously a boring place!
Well, I guess Pennsylvania has got some issues then. I wonder if they are puritan decendants. Humm...
I've been to King of Prussia. There's a really big mall there. I guess when you've grown up with something, it doesnt seem too strange. It just is. Growing up in New Jersey, where everything is named after Native American names, it doesn't seem strange until you stop and think, who would actually name a city Hackensack?
I live in Australia... where do a I start... Innaloo, Dunnydoo or possibly Beveridge... And I've barely scratched the surface...
Kat_in_the_Hat, somebody named another town Hackensack, its maybe thirty miles from me. We have quite a few Native American names around here, too. Nay-tah-waush, Bemidji , Mahnomen,but my favorite name for a town has got to be Debs, after the Socialist Party's perpetual Presidential candidate, Eugene Debs.
Isn't there a town named Fucking in Austria? Yes there is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria Apparently they had to create stronger townposts to stop people from stealing them
There's a town called "[i:77c7071a0f]Amerika[/i:77c7071a0f]" in Eastern Germany, of all. We've got [i:77c7071a0f]Wixhausen [/i:77c7071a0f]("Wankershome), "[i:77c7071a0f]Fickmühlen[/i:77c7071a0f]" (Fuckmill), "[i:77c7071a0f]Leichendorf[/i:77c7071a0f]" (Corpse Village), "[i:77c7071a0f]Ekel[/i:77c7071a0f]" (Disgust), "[i:77c7071a0f]Rom[/i:77c7071a0f]" (Rome), "[i:77c7071a0f]Rußland[/i:77c7071a0f]" (Russia), "[i:77c7071a0f]Drogen[/i:77c7071a0f]" (Drugs), "[i:77c7071a0f]Mückenloch[/i:77c7071a0f]" (Mosquitohole)... It seems there's a general tendency to story telling cityx names....
Ok so I copied these off the net but they are pretty funny... Arsoli (Lazio, Italy) Bastard (Norway) Beaver (Oklahoma, USA) Beaver Head (Idaho, USA) Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK) Chinaman's Knob (Australia) Climax (Colorado, USA) Cunt (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) Shitlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK) 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) Or even the longest place names: LLANFAIRWLLGWYNGLLGOGERYYCHWYRNDROBWILLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH In North America, they say that the length award for places goes to the Indian name of Lake Webster in Massachusetts. It was once referred to as Chargoagomanchargogagogcharbunagungamog. Itmight be translated as something like, 'You fish on your side, I'll fish on mine, and nobody will fish in the middle.' The reasoning behind some of the Penn place names (I hope this link works)http://users.etown.edu/d/DOWNINDC/places.htm First names can be just as bad- I found on my travels that my name (it's gaelige) [i:f67d8d9ae3]sounds[/i:f67d8d9ae3] like a really rude word in sweedish :shock:
The longest place name in thw world (or just britain...different places are saying different things) is in wales Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch it means The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave it goes a bit further on this site if you happen to be interested. edit to add this site
[quote:a190c75f39="Ba"]No, they're Pennsylvania Dutch.[/quote:a190c75f39] Ahh, well that explains it. Thank you Ba, you are wise and all knowing. *bows in reverent respect for the knowledge of Ba*
[quote:1a5fd93c3d="fairyliquid"]The longest place name in thw world (or just britain...different places are saying different things) is in wales Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch it means The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave it goes a bit further on this site if you happen to be interested. edit to add this site[/quote:1a5fd93c3d] I've been there with a school trip when I was child, or more of a child anyway. There was a lot of spitting going on when we were attempting to pronounce the name, thats for sure.
There was an article on these in my newspaper a few days ago: Secretsanta.com Half.com Can't remember the states, but they are both real places in the US. Don't you just love commercialism?
More Australian ones: Bob's Farm Casino Hat Head Howlong Mooball Nevertire Rooty Hill Tittybong And thats not counting the Aboriginal ones which sound silly to all but those who have grown up with them. Like Wagga Wagga. I love this country.
Mississippi has several funny townships and communities. My dad is from Possum Neck. I went to college a few miles from Hot Coffee. Coffeeville is a few miles up the road. Just looking in the MS atlas and found a few more. Acme Africa Cairo (pronounced Kayro, only a few minutes ride from my house) Egypt Agricola Alligator Alphaba Askew Battles Bear Garden Beaver Dam Bent Oak Bigbee Birdie Branch Castleman Chancy Christmas Clem Cleo Coats Coonshuck Creek Cotton Plant Devils Elbow Divide Dogville These are only a very few of the different names here. Here is a website of many of the more interesting names in the states.
These Americans are crazy. I live in a much nicer named place. Bangalore was originally christened "Benda Kalu Ooru" by some king, which translated means "Place of baked beans". Much better
