#1 2012-01-11 20:16:58
How about "Broadwoodwidger"?
Odd Place Names in the UK
OK, this isn't funny enough to merit it's own thread but I'm just lazy here.
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#2 2012-01-11 20:57:44
There's more than enough goofy place names locally, and not all of them injun.
One time or another, I've lived near both the Mianus, and Weweantic rivers.
Tihonet, 3 miles north of here, acquired its name and boundaries from an impoverished but enterprising early homesteader who toured the property with a prospective buyer of its timber rights.
After traveling all day and often asking, "Who owns this lot?", the old man always answered, "I own it!", which of course he didn't.
From that day after, the old man and the land were known as Ti-own-it.
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#3 2012-01-11 21:08:51
When I lived there we always use to joke that we lived in "Boil on the Bum".
People believed us.
"Peasedown St John, near Bath." - used to live very near there. Lovely place.
"Piddlehinton, near Dorchester." - there's a pub in that village that makes the *BEST* black forest cake. And when they ask you if you want cream, say 'yes'.... they pour heavy, sweet Somerset cream all over the massive slice of cake... It. Is. Outrageous.
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