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    Default Interesting or funny local names from your area or country?

    I mean curious names for localities, cities, bars, parks, restaurants etc. It would be nice to see someone providing etymology if you know

    Some examples from Poland:
    For villages (with translation). One have to keep in mind that some of these words or phrases bore different meaning in the past or in local dialects.

    Suczki - Bitches
    Złe Mięso - literally: Bad Meat
    Krzywe Kolano: Crooked Knee
    Tumidaj (Tu-Mi-Daj) - Here-me-give (Here give me ...)
    Tupadły (Here fell)
    Leśne Odpadki (Forest Garbage)
    Zimna Wódka (Cold Vodka)
    Niezdara - Oaf
    Niemyje-Ząbki ( He. she Doesn't brush the teeth)
    Lenie Wielkie - (Great Sluggards)
    Biały Kał - White Feces
    Dolne Wymiary (Lower Dimensions)
    Kosmaty Borek - literally - Hairy Forest - in fact named after the Belorussian adjective kosmatyj meaning ''overgrown with moss''
    Nowy Rumunki - lit. ''New Romanians''
    Wąglik - Anthrax
    Wieprzowe Jezioro - Lake of Pigs
    Suchy Pies (Dry (or Gaunt) Dog)
    Zgon - Demise
    Pupki - Buttocks
    Gady - Reptiles
    Piekło - Hell
    Zdrada - Betrayal
    Jednorożec - Unicorn

    For now enough.

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    we have village called Japan because it is situated far away from the closest town Andrijevica
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roys View Post
    I mean curious names for localities, cities, bars, parks, restaurants etc. It would be nice to see someone providing etymology if you know

    Some examples from Poland:
    For villages (with translation). One have to keep in mind that some of these words or phrases bore different meaning in the past or in local dialects.

    Suczki - Bitches
    Złe Mięso - literally: Bad Meat
    Krzywe Kolano: Crooked Knee
    Tumidaj (Tu-Mi-Daj) - Here-me-give (Here give me ...)
    Tupadły (Here fell)
    Leśne Odpadki (Forest Garbage)
    Zimna Wódka (Cold Vodka)
    Niezdara - Oaf
    Niemyje-Ząbki ( He. she Doesn't brush the teeth)
    Lenie Wielkie - (Great Sluggards)
    Biały Kał - White Feces
    Dolne Wymiary (Lower Dimensions)
    Kosmaty Borek - literally - Hairy Forest - in fact named after the Belorussian adjective kosmatyj meaning ''overgrown with moss''
    Nowy Rumunki - lit. ''New Romanians''
    Wąglik - Anthrax
    Wieprzowe Jezioro - Lake of Pigs
    Suchy Pies (Dry (or Gaunt) Dog)
    Zgon - Demise
    Pupki - Buttocks
    Gady - Reptiles
    Piekło - Hell
    Zdrada - Betrayal
    Jednorożec - Unicorn

    For now enough.
    Haha brilliant!

    I don't know of any funny place names in my area, but here's some from the country as a whole:

    Balls Green, Kent, England
    Bell End near Lickey End
    Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
    Boggy Bottom, Abbots Langley, Herts, UK
    Booty Lane, North Yorkshire
    Brown Willy, Cornwall,UK
    Cock Alley, Calow, UK
    Cockintake, Staffordshire, UK
    Cockplay, Northumberland, UK
    Cockshot, Northumberland, UK
    Cockup, Lake District, Cumbria. UK
    Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK
    Crotch Crescent, Oxford
    Crapstone, Devon
    Faggot, Northumberland, UK
    Sandy Balls, Hampshire
    Titty Hill, Sussex, UK
    Titlington Mount, Northumberland
    Titty Ho, Northamptonshire

    Lots more on here:

    http://www.anglotopia.net/ultimate-l...h-place-names/

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    Řitka - "Booty", village located at Central Bohemia, district Prague-West
    49°53′40″N 14°17′58″E

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    Bong Bong, NT
    Come by chance, NSW
    Diapur, Victoria
    Foul Bay, SA
    Humpybong, Queensland
    Mount Buggery, Victoria (Buggery = foolishness)
    Nowhere Else, Tasmania & SA
    Ozenkadnook, Victoria
    Rooty Hill, NSW ("Root" in Australia means sex).
    Tom Ugly, NSW

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    Chinaman's Knob, VIC (Knob = penis)
    Cock Wash, SA
    Cockburn, WA
    Humpty Doo, NT
    Pimpinbudgie, QLD
    The End of the World, TAS
    Tittybong, VIC
    Useless Loop, WA
    Yorkeys Knob, QLD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikula View Post
    Řitka - "Booty", village located at Central Bohemia, district Prague-West
    49°53′40″N 14°17′58″E
    rzyć - meant ''ass'' in Old Polish (up to 16th century).

    http://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/rzy%C4%87

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    Γαμησιανά - Gamisiana (about fucks, actually, can't really translate)

    Της γριάς το πήδημα - Τis grias to pidima (Grandma's jump/fuck)

    Παναγιά Μερέντα - Panaya Merenda (Mary's (Jesus' mother) Merenda .. self explenatory)

    Bυζάκια - Vyzakia (titties)
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    Berga (Barcelona) =dick
    Buenas Noches (Andalucía, Estepona) = Goodnight
    Cabeza de Buey (Cáceres)= ox head
    Cabeza del Sordo (Sevilla)= head of the deaf
    Espolla (Gerona) =is a dick
    Guarromán (Jaén) =Dirty-man
    Infiernos, Los (Murcia)= The Hell
    Matagorda (Almería)= kill the fat
    Matarrubia (Guadalajara)= kill the blondie
    Mojón, El ( San Pedro del Pinatar, Murcia)=the crap
    Villapene (Lugo)= town of the penis
    Pepino (Toledo) =cucumber
    Villaviciosa (Avila y Asturias) = vicious town
    Parderrubias (Galicia)= a couple of blondies
    Despeñaperros (Andalucía) =throw dogs
    La Hija de Dios= the daughter of God
    Moscas del Páramo (León) = the flies of the fell
    Las Casas de Fernando Alonso (Cuenca)= the houses of Fernando Alonso
    El gordo (Cáceres) =the fat

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    Porrera 'Dopesmoker'
    Ultramort 'Ultradead'
    Cardona 'Fuckeress'
    Tremp 'Hard-on'
    Cardedeu 'Godfucker'

    Barcelona 'Bar+Sky+Wave'
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