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Kumamoto in Japan has a similarly bad name in Swahili. If you break the city's name into 2 four-letter words, you get vagina (kuma) and hot (moto) in Swahili. T
by sdiq 6y ago
Kumamoto in Japan has a similarly bad name in Swahili. If you break the city's name into 2 four-letter words, you get vagina (kuma) and hot (moto) in Swahili. Thankfully, Swahili speakers are not going to harass this city's residents anytime soon.
- signaru 6y agomeanwhile in Turkey, Batman can be found.
- tpoacher 6y agoYeah, you know nobody's going to mess with Batman though.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoThe joker who did would have to be crazy!
- tetris11 6y agoTurkey has bad city names even in its own language. Along the north coast, you will find a town called Çarşamba (Wednesday), which if you continue to drive for a few hours is followed by a town called Perşembe (Thursday).
- skrebbel 6y agoThe name of the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, means Monday as well iirc.
- dullgiulio 6y agoMost probably all these names just indicate market day...
- HorkHunter 6y agoSounds plausible, Similar to weekday names in Portuguese.
- AlgorithmicTime 6y agoBut Who's on first.
- nxpnsv 6y agoAlso in Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batman#Places_named_after_John_Batman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batman#Places_named_after...
- ochrist 6y agoThere's a town in Denmark called Middelfart ...
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- lb1lf 6y agoIn Norway, we've got a place called Hell; you pass through it on the way from the town of Trondheim to its airport. A friend of mine was born in a place called Time on the southwest coast, and quips after just about every flight that he was born in Time and had to go through Hell to get wherever he's at. Oh, and as a special treat for the Germans reading this - a former colleague's last name was Ficken. He did not enjoy checking into hotels in Germany.
- dirtnugget 6y agoThere was also the case of a guy with the last name Hell (which means "bright" in German). He wanted to be part of a church in the US and they denied him
- bostik 6y agoAt least the Finns are routinely turning this to their advantage. When there is an international (tech) conference in Helsinki, those flying in to the capital may be greeted with a sponsored banner: Welcome to HEL
- vegardlarsen 6y agoThe sign at Hell train station says "Hell Gods-expedition" (which is a slightly old Norwegian spelling meaning something like "Hell - Goods reception").
- Aardwolf 6y agoHell is also the word for a blonde beer and there is a beer named like this after the town: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_Hell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_Hell
- lucideer 6y agoI feel like the worst has to be Bastardstown, Ireland. The main spoken language in Ireland is English and the construction of the name strongly implies it was not an etymological accident.
- ivanche 6y agoIn a fierce competition with Scunthorpe.
- anonymoushn 6y agoI met an indie techno producer who called himself Kura-C which means "penis" in Serbian. He enjoyed learning this fact.
- ivanche 6y agoPula in Croatia, for similar reason famous between Romanians :) (meaning "dick"). Also, Brest in France.