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So I was down at the Stampede tonight to about 12:30 am :unsure: and I met this nice couple from Australia. I asked if they knew @Graeme, but surprisingly they did not :gikkle:  They decided to come over here for their winter and our summer :) When I asked them where they were from, they said Wagga Wagga, NSW . I thought to myself, self, why does Australia have such funny names? Then I thought it my be Aboriginal names, and who am it to judge? Here in the Great White North, we have Moosejaw, and here's a tongue twister, Saskatoon Saskatchewan :P so do you have any strange named towns/cities in your neck of the woods?

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Valkyrie

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so do you have any strange named towns/cities in your neck of the woods?

:yes: There are lots of places here with long, hard to pronounce Iroquois-based names like Chautauqua  and Canandaigua, and Scajaquada. Not too far away is a town called Chili.  Out of towners pronounce it like the food... but locals know it's actually pronounced with two long i sounds - 'chai-lai'.  :unsure:  

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1 hour ago, Valkyrie said:

:yes: There are lots of places here with long, hard to pronounce Iroquois-based names like Chautauqua  and Canandaigua, and Scajaquada. Not too far away is a town called Chili.  Out of towners pronounce it like the food... but locals know it's actually pronounced with two long i sounds - 'chai-lai'.  :unsure:  

You forgot about Gowanda, Skaneateles, and New Berlin (which the locals pronounced New Burr-lin). 

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We have Lem (male member = penis) and Tarm (Intestine) which can make us :gikkle:   Also, the villagers in Hov (Oops or Hoof) just voted to change the spelling back to the old-fashioned Hou to avoid the other interpretations.

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2 hours ago, Bill W said:

You forgot about Gowanda, Skaneateles, and New Berlin (which the locals pronounced New Burr-lin). 

:gikkle:  And Olean. Oh-lee-ann, not Oh-leen ;) 

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1 hour ago, Timothy M. said:

We have Lem (male member = penis) 

This reminds me of a state park in Kentucky, near Lexington, named "Big Bone Lick".  :gikkle: 

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There's a place in Norway called Hell. Tourists find it hilarious. The train station is a tourist destination because it has an old sign that reads, 'Gods expedition', right above a door. Which means customs office, basically (gods = goods), but in English it becomes really funny and it's a popular photo op. Hell is actually a landscape description, one I'm struggling to translate right now. It means something that's slanted. It also means luck. There is, however, a ravine elsewhere called Helvete, which actually means hell.

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Don't forget about places like Intercourse, Pennsylvania; Climax, Georgia; and French Lick, Indiana. 

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Mississauga is just up the road. I remember Obama having trouble with that one. Plenty of native names here interspersed with British and French, but my favourite is not far from you @wildone Medicine Hat.

 

Lem and Big Bone Lick have got to be twinned.

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4 minutes ago, Dodger said:

Mississauga is just up the road. I remember Obama having trouble with that one. Plenty of native names here interspersed with British and French, but my favourite is not far from you @wildone Medicine Hat.

I lived there for a couple of years :P

Funny how you don't think of it as unusual when you hear it all your life.

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1 hour ago, Bill W said:

Don't forget about places like Intercourse, Pennsylvania; Climax, Georgia; and French Lick, Indiana. 

...Gloryhole, California... (yes, it's real. Up in the gold country) 

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6 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

...Gloryhole, California... (yes, it's real. Up in the gold country) 

...It had to be in California, didn't it?

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2 hours ago, wildone said:

I lived there for a couple of years :P

Funny how you don't think of it as unusual when you hear it all your life.

When I read it, I thought "what's strange about Mississauga?" :gikkle:  I'm not that far from the Canadian border, so have been hearing it my whole life too.  

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quokka

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Here in Western Australia, not far from my home town, is a locality known as: Beermullah.

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Jondon

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What about in Sydney, Australia they have WOOLLOOMOOLOO. How is that one.

 

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We have several towns with Native American based names here in Oklahoma. Quite a few are simply tribal names given to the city (Pawnee, Osage, Ponca), then others that really confuse those from out of state, like Tahlequah.

Edit:  we also have Slaughterville -- named for a Mr. Slaughter, and not for meat processing plants.

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