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.

Pffft, he was plagued with self doubt compared to Cecil Rhodes who went to Africa and said “this place is called Rhodesia now.”

Beijing is “northern capital”, Tokyo is “eastern capital”, and Kyoto is “capital capital”.

Here is a Tom Scott video about it:

https://youtu.be/NUyXiiIGDTo
https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=NUyXiiIGDTo

Australia is also just called South. And apparently someone proposed the name Borealia (North) for Canada.

Why they changed it …?

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(Karl Marx’s revision history)

I’m sorry, who’s wearing the hat?

Half the smaller villages in southern Germany are named “Ried” which comes from reed and roughly means “swampy place”. The other half uses some variation of the suffix “-höfen” which just means “this place consists of farms”

I believe there’s also a Haversham Hill, which is also a hill hill hill hill

In my group if the GM can’t pronounce the name in one try in a way that makes it clear to us how to spell it the players with rename it something more like “Bonertown” or just “Dave”

You . . . are.

People naming things in Australia:

• Townsville
• Western Australia
• Shark bay
• Great Sandy Desert
• Little Sandy Desert
• Snowy Mountains

But you also have wildcards:

• Tasmania (not actually a mental illness)
• Monkey Mia (There are no monkeys, and nobody named Mia)
• Lake disappointment (contains no water)
• Blue mountains (they are mostly green)
• King Island (we don’t recognise its claim to the throne)

Reminds of the old story that I heard (unsure if it’s true or not) about Torpenhow Hill in the UK.

Over centuries… various invaders and conquerors had come to that place and asked what it was called… First it was called Tor later on invaders added the word ‘Pen’ which was their word for Hill… later, more invaders came along and added the suffix ‘How’ which was their word for Hill… and finally… it was named in more modern English as Torpenhow Hill… which literally translates as Hill, Hill, Hill, Hill.

I don;t know if that’s 100% true or not… but it’s an amusing little story and given the oddities of the English language… I’d like to think it was.

Especially given there’s a species of bear out there that’s name is literally translated as Bear, Bear, Bear.

New Town (2)

Fun fact in hungary there are no two towns with the same name. Or at least thats what everyone seems to say and to be fair i havent found a single pair yet so im pretty sure its true. Quite a neat thing actually, if you tell the name of even a small town to someone, they should be able to find it. And because hungarian has its unique characters and structures its quite likely that its the only place on earth named that.

Guys I think that place might be on some elevated terrain

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Self-professed misogynist Nick Fuentes admitted he's a virgin and finds women annoying as he tried to defend his sexuality to Piers Morgan.

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Apparently, some people like being called virgins

However, this is likely apocryphal, since it was popularized in the 1940s, almost 50 years after the town was founded. The most likely origin is from nearby Chicken Creek, as noted by Josiah Edward Spurr in 1896, “The creek is so named from the size of the gold, which is about that of chicken feed (corn).”

What’s wrong with Shark Bay? I’d name every second bay I find, Shark Bay.