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Asked 2 years ago
by TheSheep  United States |
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I don't know why it sounds so funny to many of you?? In Dutch the name makes perfect sense since dorp simply means "village" in Dutch. So perhaps this was a new village first inhabited by Dutch settlers?
Thanks for the explanation, you may very well be right. Here today it just sounds like a funny sound.
I actually was hoping to get everyone to list their favorite odd town name. Mine is Mahwah, NJ...named after the Mahwah Indians. It is surrounded by towns with names like Ramsey and Suffern, showing a more British flair, so it's name rather sticks out.
Unfortunately, when I look online for funny town names, the ones that invariably come up seem to have a sexual connotation to them. I was hoping for some darn silly names to get posted.
I live in Indiana now. You think you're having a hard time?
Gnaw-Bone (The Fightin' Possums)
Hardscrabble
Needmore
Grundys Deadening
Hen Peck
Toad Hop
Really?
There was not a black person within 50 miles of Zulu when it was named.
Mecca has no Muslims.
Friendly town is; Hymera (Hi Mary)
Go through Slash to get to Stumptown.
Hungry? Try...
Lick Skillet,
Makin, Bacon
Snacks
Sassafras
Pie Town
French Lick (home of Larry Byrd)
I can't leave out Beanblossom
Buddha
Daylight
Fez
Fickle
Floyds Knobs
Gas City
Goat Run
Haw Patch
Ova
Raccoon
Rumble
Surprise
Wawaka
Young America
Zipp
Zero
And all the way to Mars
I don't live too far from Dissapointment, Dwarf, Grannie, Monkey's Eyebrow, and Oddville, Kentucky.
I'm originally from Oklahoma and these are real names. I've been to most of them, though some are ghost towns.
Gene Autry
Whiz-Bang, an oil boom town
Loco
Bugtussle
Slapout
Gotebo (Go-tee-bow)
Wouldbe
Okay
Pink
Food names;
Paw Paw
Corn
Grainola
Hominy
Olive
and Cookietown
Talala (say out loud)
Oaklahoma (SIC) Texas, AND Texas, Oklahoma
Rock Mary
A number? Forty-One
It means nothing; IXL
And Regardless What Side Of The Fence You're On...
Gay
Straight
Don't forget;
Slick
Bushyhead
Broken Arrow
Slaughterville
Frogville
So can anyone name a town over there?
Many of these were named after trading posts, some after names of local residents and a few just because of general cussedness.
Slaughterville - after Frank Slaughter
Frogville - a small French town
Talala, Gotebo, Bushyhead, Hominy, Bugtussle, Wawaka - All native American names or terms
Gene Autry - Named after the singing cowboy fo a movie studio that paid the town to change their name.
Young America - A political slogan painted on a barn, and the name stuck.
Gay, Straight, Ova, Zipp, Mars, Olive, Pink and Hymera are all names.
Broken Arrow, Paw Paw, Surprise, Haw Patch and Gnaw-Bone were all originally ranch names.
Any Lick was originally a natural salt deposit.
Well let me think I have been to a place called "Truth or Consequences" in New Mexico, what I heard was that it changed its name to that of a television show for an amount of money.
And about Nieuw Dorp, we have a place called "Nieuwe Niedorp" which probably means something like "Newer new village" it lies just south of the town of Winkel (which means shop in Dutch, now Winkel sounds more funny to me than Nieuw Dorp. Some other funny names can be found in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, Sint Job in 't Goor (meaning Saint Job in the dirt), or Jezuseik (Jesus Oak)and Kontich (Butt-like) always crack up the Dutch.
I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Nether Wallop and Over Wallop (and the bit in between called Middle Wallop), collectively known as The Wallops.
I used to think that Over Wallop was where you could get a clip round the ear'ole and Nether Wallop was for a kick up the bum. There is a more prosaic (and accurate) explanation, but I prefer that one.
We travelled through North Piddle (or was it South Piddle) in England. It was raining heavily at the time and my young kids thought it was so hilarious they nearly piddled themselves.
That's a funny name. I think I might have to visit, just to get a pic of the sign.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaihenuakitanatahu s the Māori name for a hill, 305 metres (1,001 ft) high, close to Porangahau, south of Waipukurau in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Big Bone Lick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bone,_Kentucky