If only I had the self-confidence of the guy who went to Australia and said “this place is called New South Wales now.”
Half the smaller villages in southern Germany are named “Ried” which comes from reed and roughly means “swampy place”. The other half uses some variation of the suffix “-höfen” which just means “this place consists of farms” 😂
Istanbul is literally “to the city” or in a way just “the city”
Beijing is “northern capital”, Tokyo is “eastern capital”, and Kyoto is “capital capital”.
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Reminds me of
Torpenhow Hill is a hill in Cumbria, England. Its name consists of the Old English ‘Tor’, the Welsh ‘Pen’, and the Danish ‘How’ - all of which translate to modern English as ‘Hill’. Therefore, Torpenhow Hill would translate as hill-hill-hill hill
Here is a Tom Scott video about it:
https://youtu.be/NUyXiiIGDTo
https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=NUyXiiIGDTo
People naming things in Australia:
- Townsville
- Western Australia
- Shark bay
- Great Sandy Desert
- Little Sandy Desert
- Snowy Mountains
But you also have wildcards:
- Tasmania (not actually a mental illness)
- Monkey Mia (There are no monkeys, and nobody named Mia)
- Lake disappointment (contains no water)
- Blue mountains (they are mostly green)
- King Island (we don’t recognise its claim to the throne)
Lake disappointment (contains no water)
I don’t know, that sounds like a pretty accurate name for a lake without water
- Shark bay
- Great Sandy Desert
- Little Sandy Desert
- Snowy Mountains
Lol these sound like Super Mario Bros levels
What’s wrong with Shark Bay? I’d name every second bay I find, Shark Bay.
- Greater shark Bay
- Lesser shark Bay
- Disappointment shark Bay ( no sharks)
Alaskan settlers wanted to call their new town Ptarmigan cause there were plenty of those birds around.
But they didn’t know how to spell it, so they called it Chicken.However, this is likely apocryphal, since it was popularized in the 1940s, almost 50 years after the town was founded. The most likely origin is from nearby Chicken Creek, as noted by Josiah Edward Spurr in 1896, “The creek is so named from the size of the gold, which is about that of chicken feed (corn).”
According to USPS, there are 32 towns in the US named Franklin. lol
There are 88 towns named “Washington”.
USPS says Franklin tops the list at 32, but Washington is popular as well woth 24.
What’s your source?
Worldatlas.com but I don’t know how reputable they are.
Oh, i see that. Interesting.
Maybe differences in what’s being considered as a town? Who knows.USPS has a way of combining smaller towns and suburbs to the largest nearby city. In practice this is very useful. You know your friend is near Nashville, say, and the zip codes do the heavy lifting.
So I would posit that using USPS as a source in this case is not a great idea.
