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Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended effect or double-meaning when read by ...
Name of a few places in Mexico as well as a municipality in Spain. "Matamoros" translates to "killer of Moors" in Spanish. Matanzas: Name of a handful of places. The name means "massacre" or "slaughter" in Spanish. Maton Abajo: A barrio in Cayey, Puerto Rico, next to Maton Arriba. Maton means killer in Spanish and arriba and abajo mean up and ...
George is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 809 at the 2020 census. [3] The "humorous homage" to President George Washington has landed George, Washington on lists of unusual place names. [4] The city is known for being near The Gorge Amphitheatre, sometimes called "The Gorge at George".
It is the second highest point in Garfield County, Washington at 6,366 feet (1,940 m), 13 ft lower than Diamond Peak, the county's high point. [1] [2] It was originally named Possossona, meaning "water passing", by the Indigenous peoples. [3] The peak is included on several lists of unusual Washington state place names. [4] [5]
By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Most of the more than 30,000 incorporated towns and cities in the U.S. listed by the Census Bureau have names that wouldn't get a second glance. But there are more than ...
When a place in Washington isn’t named for its geographical features, early settlers or Native communities, the stories can get weird.
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
An animation illustrating the anagrammatical origin of the name of the Florida town El Jobean. These are geographic anagrams and anadromes. Anagrams are rearrangements of the letters of another name or word. Anadromes (also called reversals or ananyms) are other names or words spelled backwards. Technically, a reversal is also an anagram, but ...