River River
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There is an urban legend that when the Swedish map makers came to Finland the locals would mess with them when asked what a pace was called and that is why so many place names have “vittu” or “perse” etc. in them.
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Sometimes name it after a person, or some shit that went down there, especially if its not someplace important. Like its not the nightmare town, there’s nothing particular about it. So it’s susanstown, and attempts to discover local lore would find stories about the ancient founder that have been embellished over the years.
or invert it… Nightmare Town is named because the founder had a nightmare the first night after establishing camp there, and nothing else. Susan’s Hamlet, though had some real fucked up shit happen, is actively haunted and is the birthplace of the BBEG.
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- Shark bay
- Great Sandy Desert
- Little Sandy Desert
- Snowy Mountains
Lol these sound like Super Mario Bros levels
They’d probably go with Sandy Sandy Desert.
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The Powerpuff Girls happened in Australia‽‽
TIL Powerpuff girls is set in a place called Townsville
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Yer da sells Avon.
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My d&d game tends to work better when I just name things like “The Nightmare Wood” and “The Old Hills”. The simplicity somehow lands harder.
My friends don’t know anything about my hometown, so I just name everything after old street names or old parts of town.
- Cabbageford
- Countsclearing
- Blackstakes
- Turnpike
- Holyspring
- Stepsstream
- Canyard
- Cattlestream Valley
- On The Height
- Cottageville
- Stalkpond
- Firecreek
- Meadowsmill
- Sticks
- Bogbrook
- Bogbridge
- Kingsroad
- Goldenworth
It feels incredibly realistic, because it is.
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Fun fact: copper got its roman name because the main exporter of that good in ye classic times was the island of Cyprus (Kyprus, cuprum)
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It was called “Earth” because we needed to distinguish it from Sky and Water, which were totally different things.
But then the fire nation attacked
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There is an urban legend that when the Swedish map makers came to Finland the locals would mess with them when asked what a pace was called and that is why so many place names have “vittu” or “perse” etc. in them.
Also they named Turku just Åbo.
Åbo.
Swedish “å” is an entire word meaning;
a river, a creek, a big stream“Bo”
bo n
**a dwelling** (of an animal), especially a bird's nest fågelbo bird’s nest att bygga bo to build a nest / to nest ("build nest" – idiomatic phrasing) (poetic, extended from sense 1) **a home** sätta bo settle downSo it’s a three letter word basically saying river-dwelling
I think rather than ask Finns what a place was named they just named them themselves. Perhaps because they were tired of the locals calling everything shit and piss. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I knew I wasn’t going to have to link this.
“‘Wales’…? Really, sir?”
“Oh, yes. Don’t you think?”
“What, the vast terra incognito with fauna and flora hitherto undreamt of by sights puts you in mind nothing so much as… Rhyl…?”
“No, of course not. Not North Wales. That’s ridiculous, it’s nothing like North Wales.”
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Well that clears things up.
