There is an urban legend that when the Swedish map makers came to Finland the locals would mess with them when asked what a pace was called and that is why so many place names have “vittu” or “perse” etc. in them.

or invert it.. Nightmare Town is named because the founder had a nightmare the first night after establishing camp there, and nothing else. Susan's Hamlet, though had some real fucked up shit happen, is actively haunted and is the birthplace of the BBEG.

They'd probably go with Sandy Sandy Desert.

TIL Powerpuff girls is set in a place called Townsville

Yer da sells Avon.

My friends don't know anything about my hometown, so I just name everything after old street names or old parts of town. - Cabbageford - Countsclearing - Blackstakes - Turnpike - Holyspring - Stepsstream - Canyard - Cattlestream Valley - On The Height - Cottagevill - Stalkpond - Firecreek - Meadowsmill - Sticks - Bogbrook - Bogbridge - Kingsroad - Goldenworth It feels incredibly realistic, because it is.

Fun fact: copper got its roman name because the main exporter of that good in ye classic times was the island of Cyprus (Kyprus, cuprum)

But then the fire nation attacked

One wonders how many inhabited planets in the universe are referred to by the locals as "Dirt."

Also they named Turku just Åbo. Åbo. Swedish "å" is an entire word meaning; a river, a creek, a big stream "Bo" bo n **a dwelling** (of an animal), especially a bird's nest fågelbo bird’s nest att bygga bo to build a nest / to nest ("build nest" – idiomatic phrasing) (poetic, extended from sense 1) **a home** sätta bo settle down So it's a three letter word basically saying river-dwelling I think rather than ask Finns what a place was named they just named them themselves. Perhaps because they were tired of the locals calling everything shit and piss. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

I knew I wasn't going to have to link this. "'Wales'...? Really, sir?" "Oh, yes. Don't you think?" "What, the vast terra incognito with fauna and flora hitherto undreamt of by sights puts you in mind nothing so much as... *Rhyl*...?" "No, of course not. Not **North** Wales. That's ridiculous, it's nothing like **North** Wales."