A town in Pennsylvania?

Check it out, the King of Prussia is a town in Pennsylvania. How dude.

King of Prussia

I thought it might be fun to see what other towns in other countries have bizzare names and such.

 

There is a place just outside Brussels called Erps Kwerps - I've been there, it exists - but look at the last update date - it is obviously a boring place!

 

There is also a town in Pennsylvania called Intercourse.

 

Don't forget Blue Ball, PA.

 

Well, I guess Pennsylvania has got some issues then. I wonder if they are puritan decendants. Humm...

 

I've been to King of Prussia. There's a really big mall there.

I guess when you've grown up with something, it doesnt seem too strange. It just is. Growing up in New Jersey, where everything is named after Native American names, it doesn't seem strange until you stop and think, who would actually name a city Hackensack?

 

Boring, OR.

Not so much bizarre as, well, boring. (It's a very small town.)

 

I live in Australia... where do a I start...

Innaloo, Dunnydoo or possibly Beveridge...

And I've barely scratched the surface...

 

Kat_in_the_Hat, somebody named another town Hackensack, its maybe thirty miles from me. We have quite a few Native American names around here, too. Nay-tah-waush, Bemidji , Mahnomen,but my favorite name for a town has got to be Debs, after the Socialist Party's perpetual Presidential candidate, Eugene Debs.

 

Isn't there a town named Fucking in Austria? Yes there is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

Apparently they had to create stronger townposts to stop people from stealing them

 

Ok so I copied these off the net but they are pretty funny...


Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
Bastard (Norway)
Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Cunt (Spain)
Cunter (Switzerland)
Dikshit (India)
Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)
Effin (Limerick, Ireland)
Fuku (Shensi, China)
Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
Fukui (Honshu, Japan)
Fukum (Yemen)
Hold With Hope (Greenland)
Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)
Muff (Northern Ireland)
Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Seymen (Turkey)
Shafter (California, USA)
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
Shitlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
Tittybong (Australia)
Tong Fuk (Japan)
Turdo (Romania)
Twatt (Orkney, UK)
Wank (Germany)
Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Wankener (India)
Wankie (Zimbabwe)
Wankie Colliery (Zimbabwe)
Wanks River (Nicaragua)
Wankum (Germany)
Wet Beaver Creek (Australia)


Or even the longest place names:

LLANFAIRWLLGWYNGLLGOGERYYCHWYRNDROBWILLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH

In North America, they say that the length award for places goes to the Indian name of Lake Webster in Massachusetts. It was once referred to as

Chargoagomanchargogagogcharbunagungamog.

Itmight be translated as something like, 'You fish on your side, I'll fish on mine, and nobody will fish in the middle.'

The reasoning behind some of the Penn place names (I hope this link works)http://users.etown.edu/d/DOWNINDC/places.htm


First names can be just as bad- I found on my travels that my name (it's gaelige) [i:f67d8d9ae3]sounds[/i:f67d8d9ae3] like a really rude word in sweedish :shock:

 

I've been to Intercourse. Its full of Amish people.
There's also a Horsehead, NY

 

The longest place name in thw world (or just britain...different places are saying different things) is in wales

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch

it means

The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave

it goes a bit further on this site if you happen to be interested.

edit to add this site

 

[quote:a190c75f39="Ba"]No, they're Pennsylvania Dutch.[/quote:a190c75f39]

Ahh, well that explains it. Thank you Ba, you are wise and all knowing. *bows in reverent respect for the knowledge of Ba*

 

[quote:1a5fd93c3d="fairyliquid"]The longest place name in thw world (or just britain...different places are saying different things) is in wales

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch

it means

The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave

it goes a bit further on this site if you happen to be interested.

edit to add this site[/quote:1a5fd93c3d]

I've been there with a school trip when I was child, or more of a child anyway. There was a lot of spitting going on when we were attempting to pronounce the name, thats for sure.

 

emmm *blushes* well I've been to Muff and Nobber.

 

That must have bee quite an experience! :lol:

 

Some of my friends used to go to a diving school based in the first town.


I kid you not.

 

There was an article on these in my newspaper a few days ago:

Secretsanta.com
Half.com

Can't remember the states, but they are both real places in the US. Don't you just love commercialism?

 

More Australian ones:

Bob's Farm
Casino
Hat Head
Howlong
Mooball
Nevertire
Rooty Hill
Tittybong

And thats not counting the Aboriginal ones which sound silly to all but those who have grown up with them. Like Wagga Wagga.

I love this country.

 

There's a little place in Minnesota called Nowthen, and apparently there is also a town called Hell.

 

Mississippi has several funny townships and communities. My dad is from Possum Neck. I went to college a few miles from Hot Coffee. Coffeeville is a few miles up the road. Just looking in the MS atlas and found a few more.

Acme
Africa
Cairo (pronounced Kayro, only a few minutes ride from my house)
Egypt
Agricola
Alligator
Alphaba
Askew
Battles
Bear Garden
Beaver Dam
Bent Oak
Bigbee
Birdie
Branch
Castleman
Chancy
Christmas

Clem
Cleo
Coats
Coonshuck Creek
Cotton Plant
Devils Elbow
Divide
Dogville

These are only a very few of the different names here.

Here is a website of many of the more interesting names in the states.

 

These Americans are crazy. I live in a much nicer named place. Bangalore was originally christened "Benda Kalu Ooru" by some king, which translated means "Place of baked beans".

Much better