Sadly the story that the local paper once had the headline **Ugely Woman Marries Nasty Man **appears just to be an UM.
http://iainpetrie.typepad.com/the_four_ages_of_sand/2008/06/revisiting-nast.html
But that still leaves with the village of Idle, home of the Idle Working Man’s Club.
Dammit, I came in here to say Athol.
But I’ll mention that Popplebottom Road has to be the most badass name ever. I’ve considered moving there just for the name.
And there is an Ugely Womans Institute.
I think it may have recently changed it’s name to the Women’s Institute of Ugely.
Skagway, Alaska
New Paltz, NY
Rhode Island has a lot of Indian names that are virtually unpronounceable and sound kind of like someone being sick, such as Misquamicut and Usquepaug. (Also in nearby Connecticut, Wequetequock and Quinniquack.) The one I like best, though, is Nooseneck.
I don’t wish to dominate postings here, but I cannot understand why I have not mentioned this before - that I used to actually live in Splott, a poor district of Cardiff when I can at University there.
Middle-class English female students who didn’t want their mum’s to catch on to the fact they were living in a borderline slum pronounced it “Splo” when phoning home.
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
There is a popular holiday destination in Kent - Dumpton Bay.
Much nicer than it sounds, I’m sure.
Just a drop in the bucket, actually… :rolleyes:
Kountze
Noack
Snook
Segno
Slagle
Gober
All in the Great State of Texas! 
Yippe-Yi-O-Ki-Yay, y'all! :pPhuket Island, off the coast of Thailand. Properly pronounced something like “Poo-Kay”.
Years ago I worked for an engineering firm that was designing a bridge to the island. the engineers had a lot of sophomoric fun with that name.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
There’s the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia.
Aww, bummer. Beaten to Oxnard!
No, it’s “poo-get.” This isn’t France.
The Fort Worth suburb of White Settlement has always rankled me.
Slough is horrendous, and sounds like a disease. I’m guessing you heard those names on the British Office, so you’ve heard the poem about Slough.
I nominated Brainerd, MN.
Seattle!!! LOL! :D:D:D:D
Spotsylvania
Saginaw
Peoria
My vote is for the Iroquois language-based suburb names around Buffalo; Cheektowaga, Lackawanna, and Tonawanda are the big three. There’s several other suburbs with less-than-sonorous names; Clarence, Hamburg, Depew, and Elma to name a few. The only mildly pleasant names that come to mind are Amherst, Williamsville, Kenmore and Orchard Park.
On my message board, a bunch of urban planners once discussed the cities that had the most pleasant suburb names. The winners: Johannesburg and Cleveland.
That Athol thing seems to get around…there’s one in Idaho as well.
And there’s Boring, Oregon (which is actually a pretty nice place).
And a town called Hell in Norway
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