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Post by Maria on May 19, 2007 23:14:44 GMT
I think we had a thread similar to this in the past, but I couldn't resist sharing some of my favourite place names we came across during our recent trip to the USA. There were sweet sounding names like Buttonwillow and Pleasanton; odd names like Eureka, Monolith and Modesto (so named because someone important was too modest to have the town named after him), and my personal favourite:
Zzyzx.
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Post by Ann on May 20, 2007 11:24:52 GMT
This could be an interesting thread! We have some interesting place names round here, although in the main, not what you'd call pretty ones. The one that immediately springs to mind is Boghouses. I can't imagine having that as part of my address. I do rather like Sunniside though and one of these days I'm going to drive into Dragonville, just to see what it's like there. Another that always fascinates me whenever I see a sign for it is Glororum. It always makes me wonder if it's a survival from the Roman Occupation.
(I wonder if they sleep a lot in Zzyzx!)
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Post by SaffiandJasmin on May 20, 2007 22:31:50 GMT
Apart from Splott in Wales, Booze in Yorkshire and Twatt in the Orkneys, there's Paradise in Gloucester and World's End in Birmingham!!!
Lesley T x
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Post by tabitha on May 21, 2007 10:50:22 GMT
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Post by SaffiandJasmin on May 31, 2007 22:19:09 GMT
Don't know about many more place names, but some of the names of IKEA products are fun...I remember Slaag and Dollop for a start!
Lesley T xx
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Post by Maria on Jul 22, 2007 23:03:34 GMT
I remember a Spittle in Wales. We have Thong here in Kent.
On a slightly different note, there used to be a curry house in Hackney called The Golden Stool. I have no idea if it's still there.
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Post by Edda on Dec 27, 2007 3:17:22 GMT
Roger Bannister has a street named for him somewhere in London, close to Iffley Road where he broke the four minute mile in 1954.
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Post by Edda on Jan 31, 2013 1:34:33 GMT
Watching tennis generates some very interesting musings on place names where the players were born:
Roger Federer: Basel, Switzerland
Rafael Nadal: Manacor, Mallorca, Spain
David Ferrer: Javea/Xabia, Spain
Juan Carlos Ferrero: Onteniente/Onteniyent, Spain
Juan Martin del Potro: Tandil, Argentina
Andy Murray: Dunblaine, Scotland
I have noticed that the top players all seem to come from "S" countries: Novak Djokovic (Serbia), Roger Federer (Switzerland), Andy Murray (Scotland), David Ferrer and Rafael Nadal (Spain). The ninth ranked player, Janko Tipsarevic is also from Serbia. Of the top ten players, the S's reign supreme.
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Post by Ann on Jan 31, 2013 13:18:52 GMT
Interesting how things have changed over the years Edda. In the past, it was always the "A" countries, Australia and America!
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Post by Ann on Jan 31, 2013 13:19:01 GMT
Another interesting local name I've only just come across is Quaking Houses. It sounds like something out of "Cold Comfort Farm"!
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Post by SaffiandJasmin on Jan 31, 2013 18:12:02 GMT
I think Hen Poo is a lake near Berwick, Loose Bottom is in Sussex and Wormiehills is somewhere in Scotland!
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Post by Edda on Feb 1, 2013 1:58:34 GMT
Another thing I have noticed, in addition to place names, is the multiple occurrences of names belonging to people. Some variation of John is the most common. There are multiple Johns, Juans and Ivans in tennis.
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Post by SaffiandJasmin on Feb 1, 2013 8:53:57 GMT
My dad used to know someone called Bill William Williamson!
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Post by Edda on Feb 2, 2013 2:23:34 GMT
Tennis has spawned an interesting collection of nicknames, too:
Roger Federer-Fed, Federer Express
Rafael Nadal-Rafa, King of Clay
David Ferrer-Ferru, The Pit Bull, The Wall, The Cat
Juan Carlos Ferrero-Juanqui, El Mosquito, JCF
Novak Djokovic-The Djoker, Nole
Janko Tipsarevic-Tipsy
Juan Martin del Potro-Delpo, Tower of Tandil
Juan Monaco-Pico
I could go on forever with this kind of stuff.
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Post by Edda on Feb 26, 2013 0:34:39 GMT
Another name coincidence: Serbia has Janko Tipsarevic and Jelena Jankovic. Had Jelena maried Janko, she would have been Jelena Jankovic Tipsarevic. (Janko is married to a woman named Biljiana Sesevic).
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