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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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    A mountain in Georgia, United States. Dickshooter: Both a creek and a town in gun-totin' Idaho. Don't anger any of the locals if you wish to remain in the gene pool. Dicktown: A town in New York, United States. Dickey: A place in North Dakota that's really feeling like being a dick today. Also in Georgia plus a Dickey River and a Dickey Glacier ...

  4. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The weirdest town names in all 50 states, from ... - AOL

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    It is simply the evolution of a word, first co-opted by Russians, then by the United States Board on Geographic Names. What is the world’s most populous city?: Top 10 most populous cities in the ...

  6. List of irregularly spelled places in the United States

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    Nevada (cities) niv-AY-də / n ɪ ˈ v eɪ d ə / Nevada County: niv-AY-də / n ɪ ˈ v eɪ d ə / Newark, Ohio: NURK / ˈ n ɜːr k / [n 26] New Athens: New AY-thənz / ˈ eɪ θ ən z / Name of multiple places New Berlin: New BUR-lin / ˈ b ɜːr l ɪ n / Name of multiple places New Orleans: new OR-linz / n j uː ˈ ɔːr l ɪ n z / [n 27 ...

  7. Boerne? Waxahachie? Here are 20 Texas city names you ... - AOL

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    The name "Gruene, TX" originates from the German word for "green,” and is pronounced that way. It was named after Ernst Gruene, who founded the town in the 1840s. Humble

  8. Why does NY have so many duplicate city and town names? - AOL

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  9. Street name controversy - Wikipedia

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    Amazigh versus Palestinian names. In July 2018, the city council of Agadir decided to change the Amazigh names of several streets into names of Palestinian cities to show solidarity with the Palestinian question. Although some Amazigh activists agreed that solidarity with Palestine was a good cause, they regarded the decision as an attempt to ...