I am fascinated by strange names of people and places. We have enough of them in India to keep me fascinated for ever. Unfortuanately they are all in Indian languages which will need some major translation work for me for this post. For example Kukadpally is a suburb of Hyderabad which means Village Of the Cocks. Historically, it was famous for its fighting cocks. Yes, Cockfighting is a much followed ‘sport’ in India despite it being illegal.
British names however are something special and my fascination with them started with my first introduction to Middlesex. I have come a long way from those teen age days, but I still keep coming up with odd names that arouse my curiosity. Grannymar, knowing my fascination for them, has sent me a link that is out of this world.
There are others who appear to share this fascination with me in Britain and one site that does it well has this on it.
I hope that my British readers will come up with other interesting names! I am sure that the USA, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand too must have some, for they all have English connections. It will be interesting to read about them.
A lot of the place names around here are not English. For instance, Abajo, Alameda, Albuquerque, Archuleta, Arenal, Armijo, Atrisco, Bernalillo, etc. etc. Many of them were named after people.
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Rummuser Reply:
April 9th, 2012 at 18:30
I suppose that on the North Eastern parts of the USA some names are likely to be borrowed from English origins.
Here are a few Irish Place names to add to the list:
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Grannymar Reply:
April 9th, 2012 at 11:21
That didn’t work, I need to go back to the drawing board and try again.
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I hope this works:
http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/5119989/Place_names_in_Ireland
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Rummuser Reply:
April 9th, 2012 at 18:31
Yes, it does, and it IS fascinating too.
How about the village of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, or Dead Women Crossing, Oklahoma, or Scratchy Bottom, near Weymouth in Dorset….
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We have a mixture of Maori and English place names…some places might be known officially by one name and locally by another but I can’t think of any right now
Many places are named after people, either England place names or or actual people who have lived forever on a road or associated with the area…
I live in a suburb that is an English type of name….
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Thanks for sharing the link, I’m looking for this funny British place names