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Towns with Funny Names

My post on unfortunately named products from around the world generated a lot of comments about towns with funny names so I thought I may as well set up a forum post dedicated to the towns with names that make them fun to visit, but embarrassing to live in.

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Peter Moore
15 posts | 70 responses
Posted 5 July 12

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We had this a couple of month's ago in the forum. My favourite place name is still Pratt's Bottom; I wonder if there are any more weird and wonderful names out there?
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Liz Cleere
68 post | 481 responses
Posted 6 July 12
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There are some very embarrassing place names, street names, and business names in Hong Kong (I blush to think of some of them) with various combinations of two or more of the following words:

Wan Kok Man Fook King Fat Po

I'll leave the rest to your imagination!

I know it's not the name of a town but, while walking round the old town walls of Tallinn in Estonia, we came across this tower/museum (see here) called Kiek in de Kök – sounds quite painful!

It makes you wonder if there are British place names which are funny/ embarrassing words in other languages.
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steve48
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Posted 8 July 12
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Good point Steve - we always think of silly placenames in English, but they must exist in other languages too. The only one that springs to mind isn't embarrassing or anything though, just confusing. The town of Vers in France...vers means 'towards', so signs to the town just say 'Towards...'. Nearly as confusing as the 'Toutes directions' alongside 'Autres directions'...
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ElliFry
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Posted 8 July 12
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I still laugh every time I pass Little Piddle - but have still never found Big Piddle!!
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roovilla
17 post | 74 responses
Posted 22 July 12
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How about this one in Oxford : Crotch Crescent

check out in Google maps

Ha ha

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mattcutt
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Posted 27 July 12

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