Wierd Local Names

by **The Shadow Realists** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:16 pm

French LIck, Indiana-Did someone mention this one yet?

Kitchen Dick, Washington- yes this is a real town.

by **Coccygia** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:22 pm

Until 1998 there was a town in Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard, called Gay Head.

Below the clay cliffs [of Gay Head] is "Jungle Beach" for the lack of clothing worn. It's one of the few nude beaches left in the U.S.

It is now, unfortunately, known as Aquinnah. They claim they changed it because of the substantial Native American population there, but you can't fool me.

by **Farnhamia** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:24 pm

The Shadow Realists wrote:French LIck, Indiana-Did someone mention this one yet?

Kitchen Dick, Washington- yes this is a real town.

Yep ...

I will remember Carquinez Straits,
Little French Lick and Lundy’s Lane,
The Yankee ships and the Yankee dates
And the bullet-towns of Calamity Jane.
I will remember Skunktown Plain.

Kitchen Dick is funny, though.

by **Harata** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:27 pm

Refugio, Texas, pronounced as if it's spelled Refurio. It's the only word I know of with a silent g.

by **Baptovia** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:38 pm

I've been to Toad Suck! also
Athole, ID. (Uh-thole)
The Willamette River in OR (will-AM-it)
Beavertown, OH

Paris, KY
Persia, TN
Kissimmee, FL (kiss-EM-ee)

by **Coccygia** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:43 pm

Which reminds me: Athol, Mass.

by **Coccygia** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:44 pm

Which reminds me: Athol, Mass.

by **Rambhutan** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:47 pm

Tickle Cock Bridge

by **Jari Head** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:51 pm

Up north in Michigan there's the town of Onaway (onaway to where?)

Also one for the animae fans, Lum, Mi and Parchment, Mi

by **Miss Defied** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:53 pm

Mid Lothian wrote:(Image)

(Bex now wonders if there's a place called Foreplay nearby.)

No Foreplay, but ironically this is nearby:

by **Sibirsky** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:30 pm

This is fictional.

My girlfriend Oksana and I took a trip around the world back in 2006 when times where better. We first went up north to Canada. Then we went to Europe. Once we got to England, she tells me she forgot her dildo in Dildo. I freaked out. I said you fucking twat! Why do you even have a dildo? She dumped me and ran away to Twatt, Scotland. Since I was single again I had some fun in England. I got my wang wet in Wetwang and fondled some titties in Titty Hill. Then I went to Austria and did some fucking in Fucking. From Austria I went to Australia. I met a pothead and went to his house in Bong Bong to do some bong hits. Oksana and I made up and came back to the US. We were out west in Washington. I was so happy to be back in the US and with Oksana I got wasted. She wanted to get it on but I had whiskey dick. We happened to be on Whiskey Dick Mountain. From there we went south to California and smoked some weed in Weed. We went to Virginia. Luckily this time I was able to get it up in New Erection, Virginia. We got hot and heavy in Romance, Arkansas. But then she got mad cuz I fucked a prostitute in Hooker, Oklahoma. She really turned me on in Vixen, Louisiana. I made some money in Cash, Texas. We went to Pennsylvania and had sex in Intercourse. The crazy chick stole some books in Library. We went to Ohio, and she left me hanging in Blue Ball. Then we went to Wisconsin, and I won $200 from some guy playing pool in Hustler. Oksana and I then went dancing in Disco. It was the holiday season and getting cold so we head south to Georgia. She told me she wanted to experiment with women when we were in Gay. We went south from there and exchanged some cool gifts in Christmas.

by **Jari Head** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:33 pm

Some really dull places.
Boring, Oregon
Crapo, Maryland
Dull, Ohio
Hobo Station, Mississippi
Ordinary, Virginia
Poor Town, North Carolina
Poorman Side, Pennsylvania
Shacktown, North Carolina

by **Grenartia** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:51 pm

I live in Louisiana, which like the OP's home state of Michigan, was settled by the French. Hence, I perfectly understand where he's coming from. There are a few areas in Louisiana that have weird names.

Lake Pontchartrain- this one's actually pretty easy. Pontch-ar-train

Lake Maurepas- no not that Maurepas, but a lake right next to Lake Pontchartrain. Mor-eh-pah

Plaquemines- this is a parish (Louisiana word for county in case you didnt know), its basically the mouth of the river, and the surrounding peninsula. Plack-e-mins

Pointe à la Hache- the parish seat of Plaquemines parish. Point-a-la-hash

Lafayette- I think most people pronounce it right the first time, but some states have cities with the same spelling, but totally different pronounciations. Case in point, Lafayette,TN is pronounced 'La-fay-ette', not 'Laf-ay-ette', which is the Louisiana pronounciation. (this is the only location west of Baton Rouge that I'll mention, because everything west of there might as well be Texas)

Within New Orleans proper (Pretty much any normal pronounciation for New Orleans will fly. Besides, we get so many tourists that it doesnt really matter. Also, I'm pretty sure there's not an agreed on pronounciation. But I digress, so just say it however the hell you want .

), there are several locations that need to be pronounced correctly.

Café du Monde- this is a rather famous restaurant that serves among other things, beignets (pronounced 'ben-yay'), which is pretty much a local delicacy*. Cafe-do-Mon
*Note that pronouncing either the restaurant or the dish wrong will at the very least make us locals give you funny looks. Its fucking hilarious to hear it mispronounced (although it is understandable, and most of us probably wont give you too much shit about it).

Esplanade Avenue- nothing really important here, but it is important to know how to pronounce it. Es-plan-aid

Tchoupitoulas Street- a really fucking important street in New Orleans. If you ever plan on going sight seeing in the city, it is absolutely necessary for you know know how to pronounce this street. But its fucking hilarious to hear people butcher it, so I'm going to tell you to try to pronounce it out loud, without looking it up, and then click the spoiler for the pronounciation.

On the Northshore, we have:

Fontainebleau State Park- pretty much the only beach in Louisiana that was unmolested by BP. That's because its located on scenic Lake Pontchartrain, and its pretty much the only beach in the state (aside from Grand Isle). Just say Fountainblue, and you have the pronounciation.

Tchefuncte river- a river that runs through a town called Madisonville (A nice little town, actually. There's even an excellent restaurant right on the rivershore. I highly recommend it.). Its pronounced similar to Tchoupitoulas. Che-func-tah

Tangipahoa parish- this is pretty much where New Orleans stops, and Baton Rouge begins. The town of Kentwood (the hometown of the mostrosity known to the world as Britney Spears), is located here.

Ponchatoula (Ponch-a-toola) is the Strawberry Capital of the World and home of the (in)famous Strawberry festival (its fun, if you can manage to get where you want to go, but you really cant because theres half a million people in a town that usually has less than 10,000. Apparently, two Navy tankers were named after it.

by **Aescentia** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:09 pm

Here in California, we've got some of the worst:

-Tuolumne (a city, and a county): a good friend of mine from back home in London came to visit, and we were driving through the Central Valley. He saw the sign for Tuolumne. "...what's Too-oh-lum-nuh?" (for the record, it's... almost impossible to write down a phonetic version, now that I think about it.)

-Yosemite: often called yo-sem-ITE (like someone calling to a Jew)

-San Jose (just down the Bay from here) is often pronounced by foreigners san-JO-say.

And, finally, there's a generally accepted rule here in town that we should stab any and all who call it 'Frisco.'

by **Jari Head** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:13 pm

Accident, Dogpatch, Red Neck, Arkansas

by **Sibirsky** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:16 pm

Alien Space Bats wrote:Sibirsky will probably have some fun Russian place names.

As per your request...

Блохи (Fleas)
Дураково (the ovo ending is common, especially after names. Ivanovo for example, named after Ivan. Дурак means fool)
Козлы (literal goats, slang fools, idiots)
Вагина (Vagina)
Плавки (swimming trunks)
Попки (little asses)
Хреновое (shitty)
Лобково (pubic)
Кака (poop)
Лопухи (slang for dumbasses)
Мочилы (to get wet)
Мошонки (scrotum)
Подсосное (suckling)
Пьянкино (sounds like place of drunkenness, Пьянка is a drunk party)
Синяки (bruises)
Сиськовский (not a word, but sounds like an adjective with the root "tit" tittly?)
Сосково (Mammillary)
Отхожее (Latrine)
Сика (cunt)
Синенькие (fags, literal little blues)
Хохлы (derogatory term for Ukrainians)
Мошня (purse)
Какино (that ovo, ono ending. Poop town)
Мачехин конец (stepmothers end)
Дрочево (дрочить is to masturbate. So masturbating town)
Сопляково (punk town)
Педрилово (fag town)
Бабенки (slang for babes)

by **New Freedomstan** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:17 pm

We have a Hell in Norway as well, although in norwegian it means "luck". We also have Helvete (norwegian for Hell). And Å, the shortest name for a town/village in the world.

by **Buffett and Colbert** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:18 pm

Sibirsky wrote:
Alien Space Bats wrote:Sibirsky will probably have some fun Russian place names.

As per your request...

Блохи (Fleas)
Дураково (the ovo ending is common, especially after names. Ivanovo for example, named after Ivan. Дурак means fool)
Козлы (literal goats, slang fools, idiots)
Вагина (Vagina)
Плавки (swimming trunks)
Попки (little asses)
Хреновое (shitty)
Лобково (pubic)
Кака (poop)
Лопухи (slang for dumbasses)
Мочилы (to get wet)
Мошонки (scrotum)
Подсосное (suckling)
Пьянкино (sounds like place of drunkenness, Пьянка is a drunk party)
Синяки (bruises)
Сиськовский (not a word, but sounds like an adjective with the root "tit" tittly?)
Сосково (Mammillary)
Отхожее (Latrine)
Сика (cunt)
Синенькие (fags, literal little blues)
Хохлы (derogatory term for Ukrainians)
Мошня (purse)
Какино (that ovo, ono ending. Poop town)
Мачехин конец (stepmothers end)
Дрочево (дрочить is to masturbate. So masturbating town)
Сопляково (punk town)
Педрилово (fag town)
Бабенки (slang for babes)

We can let these slide. The founders of all these places were probably drunk.

by **The Blaatschapen** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:19 pm

Sibirsky wrote:Дураково (the ovo ending is common, especially after names. Ivanovo for example, named after Ivan. Дурак means fool)

One of the few words in Dutch which we have borrowed from Russian (don't worry, you'll get it back eventually): Doerak

by **Sibirsky** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:19 pm

Buffett and Colbert wrote:
Sibirsky wrote:As per your request...

Блохи (Fleas)
Дураково (the ovo ending is common, especially after names. Ivanovo for example, named after Ivan. Дурак means fool)
Козлы (literal goats, slang fools, idiots)
Вагина (Vagina)
Плавки (swimming trunks)
Попки (little asses)
Хреновое (shitty)
Лобково (pubic)
Кака (poop)
Лопухи (slang for dumbasses)
Мочилы (to get wet)
Мошонки (scrotum)
Подсосное (suckling)
Пьянкино (sounds like place of drunkenness, Пьянка is a drunk party)
Синяки (bruises)
Сиськовский (not a word, but sounds like an adjective with the root "tit" tittly?)
Сосково (Mammillary)
Отхожее (Latrine)
Сика (cunt)
Синенькие (fags, literal little blues)
Хохлы (derogatory term for Ukrainians)
Мошня (purse)
Какино (that ovo, ono ending. Poop town)
Мачехин конец (stepmothers end)
Дрочево (дрочить is to masturbate. So masturbating town)
Сопляково (punk town)
Педрилово (fag town)
Бабенки (slang for babes)

We can let these slide. The founders of all these places were probably drunk.

No doubt.

by **Sunny Marionette** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:24 pm

One of my friends lives in Elephant Butte, New Mexico.

by **Alien Space Bats** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:29 pm

Most Turkish place-names are just the result of the Turks trying to pronounce Greek place-names in Turkish. That's how "Smyrna" became "Izmir" (toss an aspirant in front and drop the final "-na") and how "Constantinople" became "Istanbul" (replace the first phoneme ["Con-"] with one of those handy aspirants and drop that medial "-tino-"; then kind of mumble the whole thing to make it work). Those sorts of things are common when dissimilar languages overlay each other.

I find if funnier when people make changes that aren't required by the language, like pronouncing "Versailles" as "Ver-SALES", even though English doesn't have a problem with the "-sailles" sound.

Odder, though are cases like this, again from Michigan:

Saline: Pronounced "Suh-LEEN"; the name comes from the river, and it means exactly what you'd think it does ("salty") - but in this case the Frenchmen who named it gave it their pronunciation (because the town's name is exactly like that of the French word "salin"). What's interesting is that the town and river get spelled the English way, but pronounced the French way.

Interesting, Saline, LA uses the exact same pronunciation.

by **Sibirsky** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:29 pm

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Sibirsky wrote:Дураково (the ovo ending is common, especially after names. Ivanovo for example, named after Ivan. Дурак means fool)

One of the few words in Dutch which we have borrowed from Russian (don't worry, you'll get it back eventually): Doerak

Wow!

There's a lot of English and German words in Russian, and now some more English words are used, even though Russian words for those terms exist due to Westernization. First time I hear of a Russian word used in another language. Especially a Western one.

A lot of the Islamic territory of Russia, and the former republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, obviously have the "stan" endings but have been Russified. Last names that have an Arabic root, but Russian ending are common. Like Abdulaev. Son of Abdul.

by **The Blaatschapen** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:31 pm

Sibirsky wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
One of the few words in Dutch which we have borrowed from Russian (don't worry, you'll get it back eventually): Doerak

Wow!

There's a lot of English and German words in Russian, and now some more English words are used, even though Russian words for those terms exist due to Westernization. First time I hear of a Russian word used in another language. Especially a Western one.

A lot of the Islamic territory of Russia, and the former republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, obviously have the "stan" endings but have been Russified. Last names that have an Arabic root, but Russian ending are common. Like Abdulaev. Son of Abdul.

The society of Our Language (genootschap Onze Taal) thinks it's likely to have been borrowed from the kozaks who were around this area back in 1814 to get rid of nappie.

by **Alien Space Bats** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:34 pm

Buffett and Colbert wrote:
Sibirsky wrote:As per your request...

Блохи (Fleas)
Дураково (the ovo ending is common, especially after names. Ivanovo for example, named after Ivan. Дурак means fool)
Козлы (literal goats, slang fools, idiots)
Вагина (Vagina)
Плавки (swimming trunks)
Попки (little asses)
Хреновое (shitty)
Лобково (pubic)
Кака (poop)
Лопухи (slang for dumbasses)
Мочилы (to get wet)
Мошонки (scrotum)
Подсосное (suckling)
Пьянкино (sounds like place of drunkenness, Пьянка is a drunk party)
Синяки (bruises)
Сиськовский (not a word, but sounds like an adjective with the root "tit" tittly?)
Сосково (Mammillary)
Отхожее (Latrine)
Сика (cunt)
Синенькие (fags, literal little blues)
Хохлы (derogatory term for Ukrainians)
Мошня (purse)
Какино (that ovo, ono ending. Poop town)
Мачехин конец (stepmothers end)
Дрочево (дрочить is to masturbate. So masturbating town)
Сопляково (punk town)
Педрилово (fag town)
Бабенки (slang for babes)

We can let these slide. The founders of all these places were probably drunk.

Russia has a certain "Wild West" feel to it sometimes...

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