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RE: Place names that make you laugh - Mark_Riga - 22-10-2020
Peover in Cheshire
Then Hope near Llay in North Wales
and Lazy Kevin in Cefn-y-Bedd
Went to Look at a house at World's End once
in North Wales and it was a bleak, godforsaken place. Don't think we did look round the place.
RE: Place names that make you laugh - Veggie - 22-10-2020
(22-10-2020, 09:13 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: and Lazy Kevin in Cefn-y-BeddNever heard that version before!!
A bit like the English pronunciation of Pull-welly. (Pwllheli) and Carefully (Caerphilly/Caerffili).
We have Splott in Cardiff. Posh people tried to change it to "Splo".
RE: Place names that make you laugh - Norfolk Grey - 23-10-2020
Drove through Wormegay this morning
RE: Place names that make you laugh - Proserpina - 24-10-2020
Wetwang!
RE: Place names that make you laugh - Norfolk Grey - 24-10-2020
^^^lol, I braveley googled and it is complete with wetwang surgery and wetwang slack
RE: Place names that make you laugh - Mark_Riga - 01-12-2021
I used to regularly drive past Menlove Dental Surgery at one time in Liverpool and say to myself 'they don't'.
Then I always smile in places like M&S at signs like menswear and womenswear too.
RE: Place names that make you laugh - Can the Man - 01-12-2021
One of my favourite places to visit is the small village of Muff in County Donegal.
It has the Muff Liquor Company - https://www.themuffliquorcompany.com/
And
is also home of the one and only Muff Diving Club -https://www.muffdivingclub.ie
I will let your imagination work with the phonetics
RE: Place names that make you laugh - Veggie - 01-12-2021
(21-10-2020, 09:05 PM)Can the Man Wrote: There is a town in county Donegal called Muff, and it really has a diving club. I leave you to figure that one out, they also have a distillery that makes Muff Vodka and Muff Gin.
(01-12-2021, 10:52 PM)Can the Man Wrote: One of my favourite places to visit is the small village of Muff in County Donegal.
It has the Muff Liquor Company - https://www.themuffliquorcompany.com/
And
is also home of the one and only Muff Diving Club -https://www.muffdivingclub.ie
I will let your imagination work with the phonetics
You really like that place, don't you. Can.
RE: Place names that make you laugh - PyreneesPlot - 02-12-2021
(24-10-2020, 08:00 AM)Norfolk Grey Wrote: ^^^lol, I braveley googled and it is complete with wetwang surgery and wetwang slack
Wetwang Slack has an archaeological site that caused much hilarity at Uni.
When we were plot hunting down here we decided that however wonderful the plot was, we couldn't possibly live in a place called Pinas (pronouced PeeNass, emphasis on the nass).
And it is was inevitable the only tme I came off my bike was just outside the village of Bugard.
The prefectural capital in the neighbouring department to us (the Gers) is called Condom. I stayed there as a teenager on a summer holiday and when I went back to school refused to say where I'd been.
RE: Place names that make you laugh - Veggie - 02-12-2021
Condominium is a funny word. You can see why they call them Condos for short.
Don't think I could ever say I lived in a Condominium without laughing.