What's your favourite place name?

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(and one of the nearest villages to Zeal Monachorum is Loosebeare, which also sounds nice and evocative, in a vague kind of way)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link

(there's also a Scottish railway station called IBM - it serves an IBM site, of course)

I used to work there. It's the last stop before Wemyss Bay - a place name I particularly like although it was ages before I found out it was pronounced 'weems'.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to ask - how did you think it was pronounced?

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the names Lesmahagow and Auchterarder. I have no idea what the places are like.

Some people pronounce Wemyss as "wims" rather than "weems". Nice views but not much to do unless you list caravaning amongst your hobbies.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I like Springfield. There's a Springfield in every state (except Alaska and Hawaii).

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

When I taught freshman english, one of the kids in my class wrote the "make an argument/take a side" essay assignment on which state the Simpsons' Springfield was in. I think he was arguing it was in Kentucky. Or maybe NOT in Kentucky, I've forgotten.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

HEADCORN

― loggedoutvicar, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

my flatmate came to the conclusion that it was in kentucky, i think (apparently there was one comment about it bordering tennessee in the south)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

http://tinyurl.com/5p3ej

"Where do you live mate?". "Upper Ramsbottom".

Roffle! etc.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

on that same page of the map is Bacup, where they used to make Zip discs

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

And so is Oswaldtwistle, which is locally pronounced "ozzle-twizzle". That's another favourite. Rawtenstall's good too (it sounds more like Rotten-stall), and Cheesden, and Pendlebury, and Little Lever.

The north is great for place names.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

pleasington is good too. pleasing, if you would.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Yetts o'Muckhart

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, just a couple of sqaures away from the last map:

http://tinyurl.com/52p7r

Diggle! Which is where I used to go for my weekly Morris Dancing practice when I were a lad, believe it or not. Mossley's where I grew up.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Waikouaiti

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link

On a tour of the South we came across the rather unfortunately named "Blacks Run"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Barnawatha.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Old Sodsbury

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Atholl is pretty good. As is Ware.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

OMG, how did I not know before that the capital of Bahrain is called Manama.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Yalumlum

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link

COCKFOSTERS!

The first thing that came to mind was the first answer on this thread!

Place name once seen on a Chilean road sign: Peor es nada (Better than nothing).

― jim, Saturday, 8 December 2007 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Warsaw

― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 8 December 2007 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Sequim

― gabbneb, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link

MAN-A-MA! MAN-A-MA-OH-OH-OH-AH-AH!

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Big Bone Lick, KY for the win

― Euler, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link

The city of BATMAN, Turkey !!!

― JTS, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link

Westward Ho!

Gotta love a place with an exclamation mark in its name.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Manama is like: Mon as in money,AA mah

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link

there's a restaurant here called Grumpy Dicks

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link

oconomowoc ot$

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard

― Heave Ho, Sunday, 9 December 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link

McLeod Ganj
Crocodilopolis

Best names to roll round the mouth - Vanuatu & Guatemala, but to really milk Guatemala you need to go American and turn the t to d.

― ogmor, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Squibnocket, Martha's Vineyard.

― gr8080, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...

The city of BATMAN, Turkey !!!

― JTS, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:55 (3 years ago)

I just found this while idly surfing a world atlas on the bog. Awesome.

― acoleuthic, Saturday, 29 January 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-1361.png

― totally small truffles (Abbbottt), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link

COCKFOSTERS reigns supreme

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Butt, Montana

― beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link

I just random articled my way to Orroroo, South Australia.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Beeston Bump

― ogmor, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link

Blubberhouses

― ogmor, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link

Mevagissey.

Not least because it comes out something like "Mega-vizzy" when I try to say it.

― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link

Me vag is see

― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link

Wetwang

― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link

stranraer

― saer, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link

Humptulips, WA.

― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link

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