Interesting town names
May 4, 2012, 5:43 pm
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May 4, 2012, 7:54 pm
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PA has Bird-in-Hand and Intercourse in the Pennsyvania Dutch countryside. Every Valentine's Day brings mention of Loveland TX and Love Canal NY. There's a Paris in Kentucky, a Cambridge and Alexandria in Minnesota, New London Ontario, Monroeville near Pittsburgh, King of Prussia near Philadelphia, and Indiana also in PA (and also the name of a state college, like Slippery Rock and Lock Haven). Upstate NY has Ithaca (also a Greek Island), IIRC Syracuse is also a Greek name, and Utica, Senica, etc. from Indian names. MN has Mille-Lacs (but not pronounced the French way), New Ulm, and New Prague.
May 4, 2012, 9:25 pm
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Michigan has some great town names. I remember driving past Climax, MI. There's Colon, MI south of it. Not a place, but exit 69 to Big Beaver Road on I75. Other Oregon villages include Drain and Remote.
May 5, 2012, 3:45 am
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Shellow Bowells, England, and Tittybong, Australia.
And I thought I was driving through a Mills and Boon novel when passing through the hamlets of Patrick Brompton, then Constable Burton, in Yorkshire, UK.
And I thought I was driving through a Mills and Boon novel when passing through the hamlets of Patrick Brompton, then Constable Burton, in Yorkshire, UK.
May 5, 2012, 10:18 am
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If you go there, I also suggest driving to the following towns, all in the same province:
Blow Me Down
Come By Chance
Conception Bay
May 5, 2012, 10:25 am
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Humptulips, Washington
Biggar, Saskatchewan. (not much more than a few streets and a grain elevator, but they do have a large billboard that says: "New York is big, but this is BIGGAR!")
Biggar, Saskatchewan. (not much more than a few streets and a grain elevator, but they do have a large billboard that says: "New York is big, but this is BIGGAR!")
May 5, 2012, 11:48 am
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Not quite the same level of amusement, but my current home of Biggleswade always sounds funnier than it should.
I do have friends who live in the nearby places of Moggerhanger, Tyttenhanger Green and Shingay-cum-Wendy.
I don't, however, know anyone from Lickey End.
An eternal source of confusion is the nearby town of Ware. Where? Exactly.
I do have friends who live in the nearby places of Moggerhanger, Tyttenhanger Green and Shingay-cum-Wendy.
I don't, however, know anyone from Lickey End.
An eternal source of confusion is the nearby town of Ware. Where? Exactly.
May 5, 2012, 2:34 pm
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I always appreciated the humor in the town names on the eastern shore of Virgina that were from Native American words-- my two favorites were Onancock, VA and Assawoman, VA... 
Now down here in Texas, we do have "Gun Barrel City, Tx" and the small town of "Ding Dong, Tx" along with many others
Now down here in Texas, we do have "Gun Barrel City, Tx" and the small town of "Ding Dong, Tx" along with many others
