Sunday, September 12, 2010

North Cockerington, Penisarwain, Sandy Balls, and Wetwang!

I'll bring you the M-Z places from this book that Jon and Harmony got me for my birthday. This is from Butt Rot and Bottom Gas: A Glossary of Tragically Misunderstood Words (Eric Groves, Sr.)

Beaver Lick and Bitchfield: A Glossary of Tragically Misunderstood Places

M

Masbate: one of the Philippine Islands

Maybush: a district in Southampton, England

Menstrie: a village in the Clackmannanshire region of Scotland

Methlick: a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Middelfart: a town on the island of Funen, part of Denmark [Middelfart means "Middle Passage," a reference to a well-used waterway connecting Funen with Jutland Peninsula on the mainland. The town is noted for its beautiful seacoast and downtown cultural centre.]

Moorhead: a city in Monona County, Iowa

Morehead City: a city on the seacoast of North Carolina

Mountjoy: a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Mount Titlis: a 10,000-foot-high snow-covered mountain in the Swiss Alps, in Obwalden (near Bern, Switzerland)

N

Nasty: a village in Hertfordshire, England

North Bitchburn: a village in County Durham, England

North Cockerington: a village in Lincolnshire County, England

Nutbush: a farming community in western Tennessee

Nutfield: a suburb of Melbourne, Australia


O

Old Leake: a village in Lincolnshire, England


P

Pee Pee Township: a civil township founded in 1798 in Pike County, Ohio [Pee Pee Township covers about thirty-two square miles and has a population of about eight thousand residents, according to the 2000 census. The township's name purportedly comes from the initials of an early Irish pioneer.]

Penile: a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky

Penisarwain: a village near Caernarfon in Gwynedd, Wales

Peniston: a market town in south Yorkshire, England

Peterhead: a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Phucket: a large resort island off the southwestern coast of Thailand

Pissa River: a river in Kaliningrad Oblast, in northwestern Russia

Pratt's Bottom: a village in the borough of Bromley, London, England

Pump Geyser: a steam geyser in Yellowstone National Park

Pussy: a village in Savoie, France


Q

Queenstown: a city in Australia

Queensville: a village in Ontario, Canada


R

Ramsbottom: a town in greater Manchester, England


S

Sandy Balls: a resort area in New Forest Hampshire, in England

Sexi: an ancient Phoenician colony in present-day Spain

Sexmoan: a city in the province of Pampanga, the Philippines

Shag Harbour: a small fishing village in Nova Scotia, Canada

Shitterton: a hamlet in the Purbeck district of Dorset, England

Suckley: a village in Worcestershire, England

Suck River: the main tributary of the Shannon River, in Ireland


T

Tittesworth Reservoir: a water-storage reservoir in Staffordshire, England

Tittybong: a small agricultural community in the Australian state of Victoria

Tong Fuk: a resort village near Hong Kong, China

Tongue: a coastal village in Highland, Scotland

Twatt: a village in the Shetland Islands, Sheffield


U

Undy: a village in Monmouthshire, Wales

Upper Dicker: a village in East Sussex, England

Upperthong: a village in west Yorkshire, England


V

Virgin: a town in Washington County, Utah


W

Wackerfield: a village in County Durham, England

Water of Ken: a river in Galloway, in southwestern Scotland

Wecock: a council estate on the edges of Waterlooville, England

Weiner: a city in Poinsett County, Arkansas

Wetwang: a village in the Yorkshire Wolds, England

Whorehouse Meadows: an area in the Steens Mountains near Frenchglen, Oregon


Y

Yungho: a city in Taipei County, Taiwan

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