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Cities and towns across the nation have terrifically dirty-sounding and laugh-inducing names. From Intercourse, Pennsylvania to Rough and Ready, California, you're sure to have a few laughs where ...
The new name came about in 1950 when, for the 10th anniversary of NBC radio's Truth or Consequences game show, host Ralph Edwards suggested there might be a town willing to adopt the name as their ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.
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 ...
Pages in category "Lists of city nicknames by U.S. state" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .