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Boasting a wealth of Bottoms Balls Buttocks and Beavers youll also find a few Knobs the odd Crack a Clench Wiltshire and even a Roger Moor Lancashire. Top 10 Rudest Place Names in Britain.
As for verifying OE translation there is a wonderful website.
Funny place names britain. Britains funny rude and delightfully odd place names including the selection on this page are the subject of the Marvellous Map of Great British Place Names. Available in 3 formats fold-out flat or framed from 1499. Yes these are all real places that somewhere in the UK.
And better yet this is only a small selection for more on weird and rude place names have a look at the following books. The 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain. Hoo Howe Ware Wye and Wem weird wonderful and wacky British place names.
The sheer number of funny rude and delightfully odd place names that bejewel Britain from a pair of Twatts in Scotland to the many Bottoms strewn across England via a plethora of Welsh Pants is not only bewildering but also truly world-class. Top 10 Rudest Place Names in Britain. Friday 20th February 2009 by Alex Turnbull.
For a bit of Friday fun heres a roundup of our top ten rudest and funniest 1 UK place names on Google Maps. So with no further ado in reverse order the winners are 10. Back Passage City of London.
Fine Bush Lane West London. Sluts Hole Lane. This name is funny in this area of England as Heck is a synonym for Hell.
Hell Michigan Only 294 miles 473 km from Paradise and quite recently purchased by 25-year old Internet star Elijah Daniel who renamed it Gay Hell to protest The Donald s attitudes towards display of the LGBT pride flag at US. Embassies during Pride Month. Funny street names on his itinerary include The Knob in Kings Sutton Oxfordshire Butthole Lane in Shepshed Leicestershire and Titty Ho in.
The book is A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Looking it up it appears to have thousands of names too. As for verifying OE translation there is a wonderful website.
Httpswwwoldenglishtranslatorcouk which is a trove for philologists and etymologists alike. Britains silliest place names. The Marvellous Map of Great British Place Names Strumpshaw Tincleton.
This fun slightly cheeky and mildly educational tour of Great Britain introduces to you to some of our favourite places such as. Bottom Burn Fulking Hill Great Snoring Dull Old Sodbury Wigtwizzle Printed in the same format as our traditional folded maps the front contains a detailed map with hundreds of place names some guides to what some of those words mean plus the top 50 as chosen by. Britain has long had an association and fascination with funny place names and now you can have them all in your very own mapped version.
Boasting a wealth of Bottoms Balls Buttocks and Beavers youll also find a few Knobs the odd Crack a Clench Wiltshire and even a Roger Moor Lancashire.