Place Names for Concerned Parent! (Page 1 of 2)

Hello Dolly, I am not Louis Armstrong, but you are so right. A lot of places have crazy names, like the one in Italy. Here in Belgium we have also some places. But about Family names, you can have real freaky situations. Like the Family name PUT, in Dutch NO PROBLEM. it is a pitt (?) but if you have that name pronounced in French, or you live in the French part, it is pronounced different and it means "prosti...So is the Russian president, named PUTIN, in French, see PUT.

I used to live in Cornwall and there is a place just over the Devon border called Crapstone, never failed to raise a titter.

And of course there is also Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall on Bodmin Moor.

regards

David

There's a town called Petting over here in Bavaria, Germany.

What's in a name?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junebug%2C_Oklahoma

Not as productive as I had hoped but these are some pretty interesting links...

Hell, Michigan
Toad Suck, Arkansas
Wetwang, England
BUT THE BEST NAME I FOUND IS:
In Austria (Schwarzenegger should probably know this) there is a place named FUCKING (THIS IS NOT ON PURPOSE, OR PROFANITY, but it is true.
About names: are there families in the UK or USA having the name "HEAD"? If so please don't name your son....
Their is a place called Funnybone in Canada
In Maryland, there is a place called ACCIDENT, in ITALY, Bastardo. World's End in the UK. Again in Canada, a place called dildo. It is a pity we have also real fantastic names, but it is impossible to translate or understand. Like You Bet (California), a city too.
I wrote years ago a song using all kinds of EXISTING names, and I had very funny lyrics, AND all names of collueges in my village were in that song. I didn't forget it entirely, but it is again impossible to understand the original lyrics, and translating is useless.
I noticed a lot of cities having the same name in the USA, like Springfield.

Badeye, I just found somewhere on the web that there is a book with "amazing" CANADIAN names

Another town in that area is called "Bird-in-Hand".  No word of a lie...

Where did they find names, like this. Like some place names what is the historical value? The founders of a city seems to have a very nice imagination.
Do Canadians beat the USA with funny place names?
One of my favourites is that village called FUCKING in AUSTRIA. They speak German in Austria, but that German is more and more different.
A remarkable situation: I noticed that IDENTICAL languages, like CANADIAN FRENCH versus FRENCH in FRANCE are so different. Even here, BELGIUM, you have 60% Dutch versus 40% French, and our Dutch, compared to Dutch in the Netherlands, has changed a lot only the last 30 years. In a lot of languages an existing word in the USA can be totally different than the same word in the UK.

I mentioned that it wouldn't surprise me that there are people in the USA, named head.
I looked, it took me a while, but AFFIRMATIVE, there are at least 30 family names HEAD.
So I really should be concerned to use a common name: DICK. And now ladies and gentlemen, here he is the famous D.Head. Check it out, I can't remember the site, but I googled using family names like HEAD.
Also in the USA, a lot of women take the name of their husband, and they loose probably their own identity, or am I wrong?
I always have fun with a certain planet, in other languages they haven't the accent to speak about the same planet.
Bonedaddy, what you tell is remarkable, I travelled once from Chicago to New Orleans, by car, also Nashville and Memphis. VERY STRANGE FOR US: Somewhere in MISSOURI you really notice a Northern American accent and 5 miles more to the south, a Southern Accent.

There is also a place I am working in at the moment called Rooty Hill Sydney Australia.
(for those of you not of Australia having a root, refers to ummmmm how should I put it;
Nevermind.

Yeah, the name thing - We certainly don't want to expose our children to the nasty things in life - Chordie, ain't one of them things.  Kiddies, once they start to ask, are learning.  So, teach them what "approrpiate" is.  If ya think the content on Chordie is rough, wait till they get to school.