Wierd Local Names

[Canada Remnants]

Locals are locals go ask their history of their names and such because they may have a reason for that name.

[Jurgenty]

There's a small town beside mines called 'muff'. The Brits will know what I'm talkin about

[Mediterreania]

Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. Comes from either a Delaware or Lenape name, but it sounds like a Pokemon to me.

[The Blaatschapen]

There's a small town beside mines called 'muff'. The Brits will know what I'm talkin about

Does it have a scuba diving club? http://www.muffdivingclub.ie/About.html (this is a muff in Ireland, btw)

[Tmutarakhan]

Mała Wieś przy Drodze in Poland. The name actually means "Small village by the road"

They weren't exerting themselves to come up with that one, were they?

A comic said the Mormons have to be the most uncreative people. "Hey, this here lake is kind of salty. Why don't we call it Salt Lake, and build a city?"
"What are you going to call the city, Brigham?"

Some of my favorites are No Water Creek in Montana (the native name was Newaddesu "enemy territory"), Useless Bay or Bahia Inutil (I don't know whether the English or Spanish named it first) on the west coast of Tierra del Fuego (it would be really useful to have a place to anchor and repair storm damage there, but the water is too deep and the whole rim of the bay is just steep cliffs), Rio Confuso in Paraguay (it floods massively every year and never settles into the same bed twice, so whatever you see on the map for it is a lie), and the "Picketwire" river in Colorado (reasonably close to the original French pronunciation of the formal name, Purgatoire, which of course meant "Purgatory").

[Jari Head]

And then there's a town in Arizona named Pahrump. It's where Art Bell lived, IIRC.

That would go with the town here in Michigan called Brevort. A now retired weather guy always said it sounds like a bubble in a bathtub.

[Maraque]

Massapequa, Hoppauge, Cutchogue, Patchogue, Aquebogue, Cohoes, Saugerties, Hicksville, Ronkonkoma...

I love New York place names.

[Farnhamia]

Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. Comes from either a Delaware or Lenape name, but it sounds like a Pokemon to me.

Ho-Ho-Kus evolves into Hoboken, which evolves into ... Newark!

[Farnhamia]

They weren't exerting themselves to come up with that one, were they?

A comic said the Mormons have to be the most uncreative people. "Hey, this here lake is kind of salty. Why don't we call it Salt Lake, and build a city?"
"What are you going to call the city, Brigham?"

Some of my favorites are No Water Creek in Montana (the native name was Newaddesu "enemy territory"), Useless Bay or Bahia Inutil (I don't know whether the English or Spanish named it first) on the west coast of Tierra del Fuego (it would be really useful to have a place to anchor and repair storm damage there, but the water is too deep and the whole rim of the bay is just steep cliffs), Rio Confuso in Paraguay (it floods massively every year and never settles into the same bed twice, so whatever you see on the map for it is a lie), and the "Picketwire" river in Colorado (reasonably close to the original French pronunciation of the formal name, Purgatoire, which of course meant "Purgatory").

Good dinosaur tracks in the Picketwire Canyon, south of La Junta.