The Nullarbor plain sounds like an Aboriginal word, but it's just Latin and means "No trees" because there are no trees on it.

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

[Relevant Mitchell and Webb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxKnFckhzUs)

Oh and the New*town*.

I lived for a bit in a place that meant "Big nose".

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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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

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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