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Drumright – Town of Oil Repute. [6] El Reno – The Onion Fried Burger Capital of the World [5] Enid – "E-town" or Etown. [7] Glenpool – The Town that Made Tulsa Famous [8] Inola – Hay Capital of the World [9] Krebs – Oklahoma's Little Italy; Mannford – Striped Bass Capital. [10] Muskogee – The Gee; Oklahoma City. The Big Friendly ...
Oklahoma. Dead Women Crossing. This town just east of Oklahoma City gets its ominous name from a supposed haunted bridge in the area. In the early 1900s a woman named Katie Dewitt James was ...
Gu-Win, Alabama. Faced with annexation by the nearby town of Guin, the community of about 150 known as Ear Gap decided to incorporate in 1956. Residents adopted their new name from the Gu-Win ...
Universal Pictures: Lazy Town is a southern town in the cartoon Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat the population of the town is 1,231. LazyTown: Nick Jr. The name of the city is the same as of the show. Lawndale, Texas: Daria: MTV: A suburb of a major city somewhere in Texas, United States. Lemon Twist, Nevada Wacky Races: CBS
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The actual city and state name were named after a 1947 single by Vaughn Monroe, not after a much better-known song released 41 years later! Kokpek: A village in Kazakhstan. Koksijde: A town in Belgium. Kokstad: A city in South Africa. Since "stad" means city in Dutch you can look at it like "cock city". Kommunizm: A town and jamoat in ...
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 ...
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 ...