# Wierd City Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022 "2004-02-07T20:09:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![lovelyluka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@lovelyluka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelyluka)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022/81 "2004-02-11T17:34:42Z")
> [@dutchboy208](#): > > Then there’s always LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH in Wales. I’ve been there. And let me tell you, captioning those pictures in my scrapbook sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022/82 "2004-02-11T19:00:30Z")
I live near Kalamazoo, MI. Then there’s: Purgatory Hell Ypsilanti Paw Paw Colon Mackinaw (I think the bridge is spelled Mackinac or somesuch, and the city Mackinaw, IIRC. Pronounced the same) Then I know Waxahachi, TX. And Pflugerville. ---
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022/83 "2004-02-11T21:16:10Z")
How about: Hardup, Utah Virgin, Utah …too bad these towns are at opposite ends of the state, maybe things could have worked out for the better if they had been a bit closer. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022/84 "2004-02-11T23:03:19Z")
A few from England: **Land of Nod** and **Crackpot** , both in Yorkshire. **Foul Mile** , West Sussex. **Pity Me** , County Durham. **Thong Lane** , Gravesend. Google also turns up ‘Thong Enterprises’ and ‘Thong Estate Agents’ in the same town. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022/85 "2004-02-11T23:52:57Z")
In Oklahoma, we have \*\*Broken Bow Broken Arrow\*\* (not much fight’n gets done that way) We also have **Nowatta** , in a dry county no less. We also have the ability to create a sentence out of nothing but Oklahoma town names: **Sallisaw Henrietta Wagonner Catoosa**.\* \*Sally saw Henrietta waggin’ her catoosa. ---
**Author:** ![Magnolia\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Magnolia\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magnolia_B)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022/86 "2004-02-11T23:53:35Z")
In Georgia we have a: Between (I have to explain this to a lot of people when I tell them my friend lives in Between) Climax Flovilla Santa Claus Thunderbolt There’s a county named Taliaferro, funny only because it’s pronounced “Tolliver.” ---
**Author:** ![Mizzkyttie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@Mizzkyttie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mizzkyttie)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022/87 "2004-02-12T00:12:59Z")
Over here, in New Hampshire, we have the lovely town of Dummer. It’s named after an old state governor, but one could also argue that perhaps, they just didn’t know how to spell it correctly. We also have a town named Four Corners, which didn’t amuse me much 'til I found out that north of that and a bit to the east is a Five Corners, NH. If I look long enough, I may find the other corners, but I don’t know for sure. Then there’s Dingit Corner – I expect to find a dent there. (This state of mine is very fond of towns with the word “corner” in the name, it seems.) ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022/88 "2004-02-12T02:33:57Z")
Did anyone mention **Bald Knob, AR** yet? ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022/89 "2004-02-12T03:31:43Z")
> [@racinchikki](#): > > I live just up the road from Uncertain, Texas. > For sheer unpronouncability there’s the sister cities of Nacogdoches, TX and Natchitoches, LA. Actually, Natchitoches isn’t unpronounceable at all – it just doesn’t look anything like the way it’s said. “Nack-a-dish.” Seriously. As in ‘snack’. My brother went to school there for a year, so I have firsthand knowledge. There is a Pasadena, Newfoundland. I find this amusing only because, well, Pasadena??? I lived in SoCal for four years. I do not associate Pasadena with anywhere near Canada. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-city-names/228022.md?page=4)