Have some fun with place names around the world

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@MrunalMehta if you scroll up the thread a bit you’ll see our photo from Dull!

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There is a place in Norway called (the opposite of heaven in the bible - it won’t let me post the actual name)

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Accident … :us:

“Accident is a town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States. The population was 338 at the 2020 United States census. Accident has been noted for its unusual place name. A person from Accident is called an “Accidental”” … Source Wikipedia

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In Ireland, there is at least one place called Kill.
It comes from the Irish word for church!

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Early settlers in the US state of Kentucky liked to name places after animals. Here are a few of the local town names:

  • Monkeys Eyebrow
  • Possum Trot
  • Rabbit Hash
  • Pig
  • Hippo

(Kentucky in the early settler days had possums, rabbits and pigs, but certainly no monkeys or hippos, except of course these towns! :rofl:)

And there’s also Blandville and Oddville, KY.

Reading all these silly town names really makes you wonder, what were the founding folks thinking?!

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Maybe it’s a southern or country thing— these animal names. I always remark when we drive past a place in Virginia called Frog Level.

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@andrealovesanimals , that word in Norwegian means fortunately. In German it means bright.

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@andrealovesanimals there is also a town called H e ll in New South Wales, Australia!

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@andrealovesanimals ,
Speaking of the opposite of heaven …