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Re: Silly Town Names
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Thu, 9 Nov 2000 01:30:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Erik Olson writes:
> You Australians have some of the silliest town names I've ever heard. Wagga-
> wagga is my favorite.
Careful, Wagga Wagga is from one of the native Australian (Aboriginal)
languages, people tend to get a bit serious about these things.
Town names in Australia are either replicas of English towns, eg. Brighton or
Aboriginal names like Wollongong or Parramatta.
> I like Happy, Texas.
Where every meal is a happy meal.
pw
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| OK, but it's a good clean kind of funny, Wagga-wagga. America has terrific native American place names too. I was visiting a cousin on Kinnickinnick St recently. You just have to drive over a bump in the road and it says its own name! Then there's (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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