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05 Jul 2009, 1:36 pm

I've heard of three funny sounding place names in the UK, but I can't remember where all of them are...

Wetwang
Willy
Bell end

Apparently it is also banned to have a number 4 house in a Corf close/road etc. Well read it slowly and in queen's english '4 Corf close'. Pretty funny huh?

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05 Jul 2009, 2:25 pm

Six Mile Bottom

Nasty

Cocking

One Hundred Oaks

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05 Jul 2009, 3:21 pm

I've heard of a place called "Lost City."

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05 Jul 2009, 3:28 pm

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-Dick Lick Springs, KY

So, if everything on this thread is true, then the state of Kentucky has both a "Dick Lick Springs" and a "Knob Lick". That is interesting. Redundant, but interesting.

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08 Aug 2010, 2:22 pm

In Poland there's also a town named Ząbki - literally: Little Teeth.

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08 Aug 2010, 4:33 pm

Medicine Hat and Moosejaw are both Canadian cities, but I'll be darned if I can remember which province. I think MH is in Alberta, though.

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08 Aug 2010, 5:14 pm

sylvr wrote:

Medicine Hat and Moosejaw are both Canadian cities, but I'll be darned if I can remember which province. I think MH is in Alberta, though.

Moosejaw Saskatchewan.

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08 Aug 2010, 5:33 pm

Dunno if anyone's mentioned this yet, but there's a Fingringhoe in Essex, England.

Apparently Fingringhoe is a really nice place but I can't say from personal experience what Fingringhoe is like...

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08 Aug 2010, 6:59 pm

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That's in Webster,MA

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08 Aug 2010, 8:24 pm

Rancho Cucamonga!

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14 Aug 2010, 3:40 pm

Mabe Burnthouse, Cornwall.
Always got my attention driving past the sign when I was little.

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14 Aug 2010, 3:52 pm

^^Yaye greetings everyone.

I believe I have once visited a little village very near to Whitby named Fryup (yaye, and I believe there was a happy little village near named Egton).

^^ Also, when I was happily younger, my magical brother lived within Scotland. When I would travel with my parents to visit my brother, I believe we would often pass a sign to a lovely town named Ecclefechan.

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18 Nov 2010, 7:39 am

In Poland we have also a city named Piła - Saw - not like in "I saw it" but like the device using which you can cut something. There's also a city named Łódź which is translated as Boat.

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18 Nov 2010, 9:03 am

I'm pretty sure there's a place in Germany called "Worms".

Sweden has a town called "Fjuckby" and another called "Tomtebacken", the latter being roughly translated to "Santa hill"
There's a place called "Gaydon" on the way to Warwick in England.
Also, "Rollright", "Wimpstone", "Birdlip" and "Irlam" are all also in England.

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