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  2. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    While English-speakers may find this city's name to be funny, its official name is said to be the world's longest, which does make a hard man humble at one point. Bang Mun Nak: A district in Phichit province, upper central Thailand. "Mun Nak" means "otter poop" in Thai, and the issue about the other word can be found in nearby entries. Bangor

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

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    Click through our gallery to take a look at some other unusual street name: Street names were submitted by users and then verified via MapQuest. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.

  5. Jones Sausage to Glascock: The history behind some of ... - AOL

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    Surrounding street names include Mine Shaft Road, Prospector Place and Nugget Lane. • Rock Quarry Road : A rock quarry used to be in this area, and the stones were used to build the State ...

  6. Street name - Wikipedia

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    Street names are usually renamed after political revolutions and regime changes for ideological reasons. In postsocialist Romania, after 1989, the percentage of street renaming ranged from 6% in Bucharest, [16] and 8% in Sibiu, to 26% in Timișoara. [17] Street names can be changed relatively easily by municipal authorities for various reasons.

  7. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    Calle Street is the name of streets in Leander, Texas; Taft, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Victoria, Texas and Warwick, Rhode Island; El Camino Way in Palo Alto, California (The way way – Spanish) [3] [34] Fore Street is a common street name in the South West of England, where "Fore" derives from the Cornish for 'street'.

  8. Category:Street names - Wikipedia

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    Street name controversy; Street names in Barcelona; W. Street names of Warsaw; List of state-named roadways in Washington, D.C. Z. List of streets in Zamboanga del Norte

  9. Street suffix - Wikipedia

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    Notwithstanding this, some street names historically and linguistically do not carry a suffix, e.g. Broadway, Rampart, Embarcadero. This list below has examples of suffix forms that are primary street suffix names, common street suffixes or suffix abbreviations, recommended by the United States Postal Service. [2]