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Re: OT: Place names

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, May 5, 2000, 16:25
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".) -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)