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A street name controversy is a conflict over a public road or street name, also including alleys, squares, parks, quays and motorways. Theory. Causes. There are ...
Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. 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 ...
A place in Wyoming probably filled with street rats. Also a ghost town in California. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake: A reservoir in South Carolina that apparently needs an intervention. Renamed to "Village Lake" in 2022. Alemanía An almost ghost village in the province of Salta, in the northwest of Argentina. Its name is Spanish for "Germany". Alert
A racist term for a Native American woman will be removed from nearly three dozen geographic features and place names on California lands, the state Natural Resources Agency announced Friday ...
To answer readers' questions about Milwaukee street names, the Journal Sentinel turned to the man who wrote the book on the subject. Mysteries of Milwaukee street names explained, from ...
Rude Britain (subtitled 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain) is a 2005 book of British place names with seemingly rude or offensive meanings. [1] The book (ISBN 0-7522-2581-2) is written by Rob Bailey and Ed Hurst, and published in the United Kingdom by the Pan Macmillan imprint Boxtree.
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.
The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain. [34] John Ware , an influential cowboy in early Alberta, has several features named after him, including "Nigger John Ridge", which is now John Ware Ridge.