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Reminds me of > Torpenhow Hill is a hill in Cumbria, England. Its name consists of the Old English ‘Tor’, the Welsh ‘Pen’, and the Danish ‘How’ - all of which translate to modern English as ‘Hill’. Therefore, Torpenhow Hill would translate as hill-hill-hill hill
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always wanted to be a fly on the wall when they named the colony (later state) of Virginia. "We should name this place after Queen Elizabeth."\ "Excellent idea, Elizabethia it is!"\ "No, no. Virginia. 'Cause she's never... you know. Wink wink, nudge nudge."
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Alaskan settlers wanted to call their new town Ptarmigan cause there were plenty of those birds around. But they didn't know how to spell it, so they called it [Chicken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken,_Alaska).> 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).”
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People naming things in Australia: - Townsville - Western Australia - Shark bay - Great Sandy Desert - Little Sandy Desert - Snowy Mountains
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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.
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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.From the [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpenhow_Hill) page: > A. D. Mills in his Dictionary of English Place-Names interprets the name as "Ridge of the hill with a rocky peak", giving its etymology as Old English torr, Celtic *penn, and Old English hoh, each of which mean 'hill'. Thus, the name Torpenhow Hill could be interpreted as 'hill-hill-hill Hill'. I think it's a hill?
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People naming things in Australia: - Townsville - Western Australia - Shark bay - Great Sandy Desert - Little Sandy Desert - Snowy Mountains
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I sometimes wonder why that isnt just "New Wales". Is there something so distinct about the south of Wales that makes it be seen as something distinct to name something after?
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Australia is also just called South. And apparently someone proposed the name Borealia (North) for Canada.
