funny place names in your country/language!
Pomme de Terre —> Pumly Tar (Missouri)
L'Eau Froide —> Low Freight (Arkansas)
L'Ours (rivière) —> Louse Creek (Dakota-du-Nord ?)
Les Monts Verts —> Lemon Fair (Vermont)
Bois Brûlé —> Bob Ruly (Michigan ?)
Purgatoire (rivière) —> Picketwire (Colorado)
Sumac Couvert —> Smackover (Arkansas)
Six Cailloux —> Siskiyou (Californie)
Very funny, Ramzi -- but on your map, I think Madagascar was closer to the "danger zone" than the Middle East!
--In South Carolina, there's [...] Walhalla (Norse name for heaven).--
So, heaven is in South Carolina...:-) In Germany, I know of a place called "Wallhalben", it has the same origin.
Heaven is in South Carolina, but Paradise is in California. Right above Chico.
"Those streets were normally called Gropecunt Lane, and in a number of cases that has lived on in the likes of Grope Lane, etc. "
Gropecunte Lane (it has an E in the end) is what Threadneedle Street in the City of London used to be known as. It's the street where the Bank of England is situated.
Britain has HUNDREDS of funny placenames. Here is a list of names of real British villages -
Ae
Asick Bottom
Backside
Badger
Bell End
Beeby
Biggar
Bishops Itchington
Bitchfield
Blubberhouses
Bottom Head
Bogend
Bucklers Hard
Bummers Hill
Bush
Buttock Point
Chess
Cock Bridge
Cocking
Cocklick End
Cockpole Green
Cockermouth
Crackpot
Crapstone
Currie
Dead
Dogdyke
Droop
Duck End
Dyke
Fatfield
Fattahead
Foul End
Gaywood
Goosey
Great Snoring
Happy Bottom
Horsey Windpump
Hungry Law
Lickfold
Leatherhead
Lickey End
Looe
Loose
Lover
Lower Slaughter
Muff
Nasty
Nether Wallop
Nobber
Oldtown of Ord
Once Brewed
Outcast
Pant
Piddle
Plush
Pratts Bottom
Quaking Houses
Rashy Height
Ring of Kerry
Salt
Shaggie Burn
Sheepy Magna
Slack
Slaggyford
Splatt
Splott
Street
The Hard
The O A
Thong
Thrashbush
Three Cocks
Titsey
Titty Hill
Toe Head
Tongue
Twatt
Wideopen
Willey
Wormegay
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British street names -
Balls Street
Bitchams Mead
Bordom Hill
Bottom Street
Bugger End
Bulcock Street
Butts Court
Cackle Street
Cake Street
Chavey Down Road
Cock Lane
Crapple Lane
Crazy Lane
Crotch Crescent
Dicky Lane
Droop Street
Dumber Lane
Dyke Close
Fartown
Fanny Street
Fishey Lane
Football
Gay Street
Gropers Lane
Happy Land
Hoare Road
Holebottom
Itchin Close
Knob Lane
Land of Green Ginger
Little Shambles
Loonies Court
Messines Close
Mouthey’s Lane
Nameplate Close
Nutter Lane
Pant-y-Pistyll
Petty France
Piddle Lane
Porridge Pot Alley
Potto Street
Pratt’s Folly Lane
Road
Rotten Row
Shaggs Meadow
Silly Lane
Slag Lane
Slappers Hill
Smellies Lane
Sodom Lane
Street
Tarmac Road
The Shutt
Tickle Avenue
Tongue Lane
Trash Lane
Trump Street
Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate
Willey Street
Trust the British to have placenames that sound dirty and slightly pornographic. It's like something out of a Carry On Movie.