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There's actually another village called Fugging in Lower Austria, i assume the name was chosen to keep it phonetically close to Fucking but within the linguisti
by krsdcbl 6y ago
There's actually another village called Fugging in Lower Austria, i assume the name was chosen to keep it phonetically close to Fucking but within the linguistic boundaries of "common" village names.
Also, a "Fock" is a pig in Austrian and Bavarian dialects, so "Focking" would be indicative of "pigs place" or "where the pigs are from", which hardly sounds like a desirable name for ones village.
- IndySun 6y agoPigs as dirty is an outdated, mostly religious based, meme. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/the-joy-of-pigs-smart-clean-and-lean/2126/ https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/the-joy-of-pigs-smart-clean-...
- mulmen 6y agoOk but the town wasn't named after pigs so why change it now?
- mathieuh 6y agoRegardless, there are many idiomatic phrases that treat pigs as undesirable, e.g., "you filthy pig", "I'm sweating like a pig", "you've made a right pig's ear of that" etc. While your campaign to restore the dignity of the pig is admirable, I'm not sure it's going to catch on
- IndySun 6y agoI try. Maybe I might make one person think differently. Thanks for noticing.
- lostlogin 6y agoPigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal.
- IndySun 6y agoOnly if a human puts it there.
- Ichthypresbyter 6y agoSwindon ("Pig Hill", a large town of about 180,000 people in Southwest England) is just one of many places named after pigs- why wouldn't you name your village after its main agricultural product? My personal favourite is the small Devon village of Toller Porcorum, which has historically also been called "Swines Toller" and "Hog Toller".