Re: OT: Place names

James Campbell wrote:

> Chipping Sodbury
Then there's the tourist who saw several warning signs on the motorway
for the town of Loose Chippings, but somehow never came to it....

> Somewhere, there's a Nempnett Thrubwell, and my best friend lives a mile or
> two from Helions Bumpstead (Essex). One of my first pseudo-conlanging
> efforts was the following faux-Dorset placename [inspired by Llanfair PG]:
T.H. White, the author of _The Once And Future King_, wrote a much less
well-known novel called  _Mistress Masham's Repose_, about a young girl
who discovers on an English country estate a colony of Lilliputians, descending
from a group brought to England after Lemuel Gulliver's visit.  They still speak a
variety of 18th-century English.

One of the towns near the estate rejoices in the name of
Monk's-Unmentionable-cum-Mumble.  ("Unmentionables" was once a euphemism for
"underpants".)

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