Places that are in the wrong country

[Mister Ting]

8 hours ago, Clogiron said:

I don't know where they belong but Mumps, Shelf, Fence and Nutclough all seem to be in the wrong places to me, and I cannot drive through the latter without thinking of Tina Turner!

Now I've got Nutclough City limits on my mind.

[Padge]

49 minutes ago, Mister Ting said:

Now I've got Nutclough City limits on my mind.

That is now your earworm.

[Mister Ting]

3 minutes ago, Padge said:

That is now your earworm.

It certainly is.

I used to drink there occasionally,  Nutbush never clicked. Nutclough does, obviously!

[The Rocket]

On 16/09/2020 at 08:37, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Thought I'd do some research into where the place name Twatt actually comes from. I figured it was norse given its on the islands, which it is, and it means "small parcel of land". Apparently it is also the origin of the English name, Thwaite.

The origins of names, be they place names or personal names, is something I have always found very interesting, always like to learn another one! 

Funny over here on the NSW mid north coast, there are several small towns or rural areas that end in `bakh` a couple `bach`. The former being a description by the local Aborigines of the proliferation of a certain type of tree in that area, for eg. Killabakh or Kundibakh,  just coincidence `bakh` and the English `bark`. `Bach` are areas that had a large number of German settlers, which is revealed in some of the surnames of long standing families in those areas. i.e the Schmitzers from Krambach.

[Robin Evans]

Archer's way, formerly known as Butt Hole Road is in Conisbrough.... pronounced Cunnisbro.

 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, The Rocket said:

Funny over here on the NSW mid north coast, there are several small towns or rural areas that end in `bakh` a couple `bach`. The former being a description by the local Aborigines of the proliferation of a certain type of tree in that area, for eg. Killabakh or Kundibakh,  just coincidence `bakh` and the English `bark`. `Bach` are areas that had a large number of German settlers, which is revealed in some of the surnames of long standing families in those areas. i.e the Schmitzers from Krambach.

Very interesting! It's amazing the similarities across so many different languages. It's understandable with European languages with most having either Latin or Germanic origins and being spoken so close together. For example, if you can speak German you can understand Dutch and Norwegian quite well with much of it being similar. Similarly if you can speak Spanish you can understand Italian quite well or vice versa.

Much of the Yorkshire accent and dialect has its roots in German given this was a Saxon stronghold in the dark ages, an example of this being the pronunciation of 'water'. In Yorkshire we would say it exactly how it is spelt, wat-er, rather than the southern rah rah, worter. In German water is 'wasser', again pronounced exactly as spelt. Both words sound very similar. Basic rule for learning German is, "Say what you see", in other words just pronounce something exactly as spelt. 

Anyway, German lesson over for today!

If you didn't know, Bach is the German word for a stream or any kind of small river. Do any of the places ending in Bach also have the name of a nearby water course in them? 

[Futtocks]

14 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

If you didn't know, Bach is the German word for a stream or any kind of small river. Do any of the places ending in Bach also have the name of a nearby water course in them? 

Bach is also Welsh for small or little, so you could get some wrong answers on this one.

[DavidM]

Barbara Bach 

[Padge]

St Germans in Cornwall (not Germany), on the St Germans (or Tiddy (not in Wales)) River, which runs to the next village of Hamoaze ( not in Palestine).

[DavidM]

Uranus sounds like it should be somewhere else , but it’s actually a planet 

[The Rocket]

6 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Very interesting! It's amazing the similarities across so many different languages. It's understandable with European languages with most having either Latin or Germanic origins and being spoken so close together. For example, if you can speak German you can understand Dutch and Norwegian quite well with much of it being similar. Similarly if you can speak Spanish you can understand Italian quite well or vice versa.

Much of the Yorkshire accent and dialect has its roots in German given this was a Saxon stronghold in the dark ages, an example of this being the pronunciation of 'water'. In Yorkshire we would say it exactly how it is spelt, wat-er, rather than the southern rah rah, worter. In German water is 'wasser', again pronounced exactly as spelt. Both words sound very similar. Basic rule for learning German is, "Say what you see", in other words just pronounce something exactly as spelt. 

Anyway, German lesson over for today!

If you didn't know, Bach is the German word for a stream or any kind of small river. Do any of the places ending in Bach also have the name of a nearby water course in them? 

Yes, that is exactly correct, Krambach sits on the side of a small hill and below the village runs a creek. 

I can quite clearly recall the legendary English historical figure Catweazle using the `wat-er` pronunciation, he was always on the run from the Normans. I  can understand how places such as springs held `religious` significance  for our forebears and were often the site of shrines and places where people left offerings. It must have seemed quite miraculous wat-er bubbling from the earth. Still does.

Even living on a farm it is a well known observation that sometimes after a long dry spell the `springs` will open, something I have never had satisfactorily explained. One of the best springs I remember was at a property we owned at Killabakh. Before settlement Killabakh was home to a large Aboriginal population, that guaranteed water supply might explain that.. I`ve never put those two things together before.

Anyway, I will stop with my Australian history lesson now in turn. Good day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The Rocket]

6 hours ago, DavidM said:

Barbara Bach 

That was only her acting name, her real name was Barbara StreamOranyKindofsmallRiver. 

She was always my favourite Bond Girl. Ringo you sly dog. 

[DavidM]

9 hours ago, The Rocket said:

That was only her acting name, her real name was Barbara StreamOranyKindofsmallRiver. 

She was always my favourite Bond Girl. Ringo you sly dog. 

I always thought she was a bit funny looking , not that I’d have shut the door in her face if she’d come calling and said ‘ make love to me immediately ‘ . I liked Maud Adams , Ursulla Andress , Jane Seymour , Tatiana Romanova off From Russia With Love , Pussy Galore , Jill and Tilly Masterson ( a few fantasies as a young un there ) , Plenty O’Toole and I think especially Britt Ekland . So I’m not to picky 

[The Rocket]

5 minutes ago, DavidM said:

I always thought she was a bit funny looking , not that I’d have shut the door in her face if she’d come calling and said ‘ make love to me immediately ‘ . I liked Maud Adams , Ursulla Andress , Jane Seymour , Tatiana Romanova off From Russia With Love , Pussy Galore , Jill and Tilly Masterson ( a few fantasies as a young un there ) , Plenty O’Toole and I think especially Britt Ekland . So I’m not to picky 

As Ursula Andress said to James:  " I think my mouth`s too big "

James: " No, it`s just the right size " with one eyebrow raised.

[DavidM]

Just now, The Rocket said:

As Ursula Andress said to James:  " I think my mouth`s too big "

James: " No, it`s just the right size " with one eyebrow raised.

Lots of Bond girls but Sean is bond 

[The Rocket]

2 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Lots of Bond girls but Sean is bond 

It`s funny you know, I always preferred  Roger Moore, something about his ham debonair manner.

Bond Girl: " You have a very good memory for facts Mr. Bond ",

James: " And figures ".

[Bleep1673]

A lot of us were born in Lancashire, but on our passports it says Gr. Manchester, Merseyside, or even Cheshire, if you were born before 1973.