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Ann, shame on you.... you left out all the spittle that goes with trying to say it the first time, lololol!!

;¬)))

wherever there is an...uck in Ann's phonetic translation, there should be an ll sound.. to get that put your tongue to the roof of your mouth, just at the back of your teeth, then blow gently out...... now wipe the spit off the walls and try again.... gently this time, lol

Love

Daff xx

In Wales is a place called "Knocking"..and in the village is a shop called "The Knocking Shop".
Get a bag if you pass...lol..has the name on them.

You can boast you've been to a Knocking shop.

I have always quite enjoyed Lower Upham and Effingham.

Australia has many strange and unusual place names. For instance

Mount Buggery
Wunghnu (one ewe)
Toolamba
Nowhere Else
Poowong
Rooty Hill
Wonglepong
Yorkie's Knob
Come By Chance

And one for New Zealand

Waikikamukau (pronounced - why kick a moo cow)

Robins Bottom is by Titty Hill,Next village to Cocking is Didling.Not far from there is Diddy Bones Knapp.

Clanvierpookgwingickgogerickurndrobucklantisliogogogock

that's as close phonteically as I can get it Kathryn - have a go at that!!

Ann X

Well my husband was born in JUMP it is in Yorkshire, between Rotherham, Sheffield and Barnsley.

He took me there to prove it.

Granny

Llanfair I've heard of - figured that was it. ;)

That's just fine, Jackie -- you still remember how to pronounce it, and you're not going to tell. :(

Kathryn, we just call it Llanfair p.g. for short!

Katherine
When I lived in Wales one of the old blokes that came into my Dads pub taught me how to say it.
Took me a while to learn but I still remeber it after all these years.

Regards
Jackie

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Never mind what it means.

How do you PRONOUNCE it?

Seriously ...

Quebec has some okay ones too.

St-Louis-du-Ha-Ha.

Anse à Mouille-Cul -- pretty much, politely, "wet yer bum cove".

http://parcdubic.com/TexAg/P03FrBF.htm

Ah yes. More politely: Wet Pants Cove. The legend is apparently that two missionaries sat down to rest, and when they awoke the water was up to their waists.

I spent a summer in a village called Trois-Pistoles, also on the south shore of the St Lawrence. A pistole was actually a coin. The tale is that a voyageur bent over to scoop up some water to drink and lost his cup, upon which he said Damn, there go three pistoles!

These are all in Australia
Mullaloo
Wanneroo
Innaloo
Muckinbuddin
Cocklebiddy
Gunnamatta


Then there is the one in Wales
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Translated means
The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave" i

This one in New Zealand
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Translated means
"the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater,' played his flute to his loved one."


Regards
Jackie

Woonsocket - Massachusettes

And going back to the opening post -- in the US, right near the Canadian border, you have Cracker, Montana. ;)

Crapstone in Devon

Bozomzeal near Dartmouth
Coffinswell near Torquay
Dog Village near Exeter
and
Woolfardisworthy West nr Bideford

There is a 'Little Snoring and a 'Gt Snoring' on the way to norfolk!
it kept the kids which we were in the car with amused for about 30mins
:)

We have a few unusual ones here in Shropshire.

Howle, Knockin ( and the local store is called the Knockin Shop) Wigwig, Clun, Diddlebury, Wagbeach, Bluebell, Cronkhill and Woodseaves. Right on the border between Shropshire and Staffordshire is a place called Loggerheads.

Patricia, I used to live at Lickey End.