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Re: Silly Town Names
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Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:07:33 GMT
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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 Oconomowoc. A
friend of a friend of mine is invited to my wedding just because she was from
there, and anybody that knows where Oconomowoc is, is 'in' in my fiancee's book.
This is all up by Lake Gitcheegoomee, a name nobody says anymore except (singer)
Gordon Lightfoot. Oh, and I use it just for effect. When I was a kid, my dad and
my brother used to pull my leg about Lake Bigmoosmeguntick, and I didn't think
it was at all out of the ordinary, having learnt to spell Michillimackinack (ok
I can't spell it anymore..)
There's all the places named for copies of England (he types, from the Georgian
House of Kew Gardens next door to the Buckingham and Windsor, newly populated by
Russians--cold war shivers?), The Netherlands (at least in New York, uhh, Nieuw
Amsterdam), and the whole darn ancient Mediterranean. I went to school in Troy
with students from Rome, Phoenicia, Cairo, Malta, Ithaca, you name it. And I'm
marrying a student from Carthage. And York is a British corruption of the Roman
Eboracum and I'm waiting to see *that* on a map.
OK, back on the funny track: Climax, Colorado, elevation 11,318 ft.
I also like Slumgullion Pass. Don't know what it means.
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| In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Erik Olson writes: Most Australian state names are boring apart from Tasmania, named after the explorer Abel Tasman. Before the English came sniffing around, when the Dutch and Portuguese made the mistake of landing on the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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