Weird geographical names

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09 Mar 2013, 11:06 pm

Burnt Corn, Alabama

Burnt Corn (or Burnt Corn Spring) is a small unincorporated community in Monroe County, Alabama, on the border of Conecuh County. Burnt Corn is located at a historic crossroads near the source of Burnt Corn Creek and the intersection of two trading paths.
The town and the creek may have been named for an incident in which passersby found a pile of parched corn, a food often used by Creek Indians when traveling.

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31 Jul 2013, 12:54 am

Intercourse, Pennsylvania

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31 Jul 2013, 1:31 am

If you drive from Canberra to Melbourne along the inland route, you will pass a 'Diddah Diddah Creek', and soon after a 'Daddah Daddah Creek" . I did not see a 'Doodah Doodah Creek' :lol:

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31 Jul 2013, 2:07 am

Lots of people visit Orkney, just to get a good look at the local twatt.
:-) I always like to see a nice bit of Twatt.

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31 Jul 2013, 7:31 am

Upper and Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds.

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31 Jul 2013, 7:37 am

Krabo wrote:

Just what the topic says, strange or unique or extreme geographical names of whatever sort. No alphabetical order needed, but it might be a good idea to explain shortly why you chose the particular name you did. – All right, I'll start.

Mschtschonow. This is the Germanized form of the Polish city name Mszczonów and as such it starts with eight consonants.

Its not THAT bad. ^^ The sch is written with three letters, but stands for one consonant, a kind of drunken "s". You can try that by doing s, and leaving your teeth and tongue the way they are, but make out of your lips an o as if you were astouned. Its pretty comparable to your "sh" or "ch" from waSHing-maCHine. So if written, it looks pretty awful, but its not that hard to say. ^^

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31 Jul 2013, 11:43 am

In Powys, Wales is a village known in English as Three Cocks.

In Norfolk is a village known as Three Holes...

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31 Jul 2013, 3:16 pm

Possibly the last city name in the alphabet, Zzyzx, CA, United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California

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31 Jul 2013, 7:18 pm

Queensland has a Blackbutt.

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01 Aug 2013, 12:31 pm

Goobertown, Arkansas

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04 Aug 2013, 11:38 pm

Husløs, Norway (means houseless)
Værløse, Denmark (means weatherless)
Jokkmokk, Sweden (å jokke means to hump in Norwegian)
Little Rock, USA
Wounded Knee, USA
Sulitjelma, Norway (just sounds odd)

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