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  2. List of chemical compounds with unusual names - Wikipedia

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    Chemical nomenclature, replete as it is with compounds with very complex names, is a repository for some names that may be considered unusual. A browse through the Physical Constants of Organic Compounds in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (a fundamental resource) will reveal not just the whimsical work of chemists, but the sometimes peculiar compound names that occur as the ...

  3. List of unusual biological names - Wikipedia

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    Unusual names have caused issues for scientists explaining genetic diseases to lay-people, such as when an individual is affected by a gene with an offensive or insensitive name. [13] This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell ...

  4. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A very long railway station sign for a very long name only pronounceable by Welsh people. A Bay State fire department's patch, with the longest place name in the United States. This page is meant for Wikipedians to list articles about places with unusual names.

  5. 200 rare, vintage baby names that sound fresh ... but not too ...

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    200 rare vintage baby names for boys and girls: Names that are classic, cool and unusual.

  6. Funk, Boring and Other Oddball American Town Names - AOL

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    From Eek, Alaska, to Christmas, Florida, American towns have taken on some unusual names over the years. Sometimes they pay tribute to an early founder. ... It went by that name long before it was ...

  7. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. The most unique street names in the world - AOL

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    Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any longer.

  9. List of long species names - Wikipedia

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    [53] [54] They were originally in the genus Lactobacillus (making their names only 30 letters long), but were transferred to Companilactobacillus after a 2020 taxonomic revision of the former genus which redistributed its species among 25 genera. [28] † Diandongpetalichthys liaojiaoshanensis P'an & Wang, 1978 - order Petalichthyida.