Town Names

[PhysAssist]

Here's some from NY. There's a lot more that most people can't even pronounce.

Bath
Beaverkill - (New York is all about killin')
Big Flats
Buffalo
Burnt Hills
Busti
Butternuts
Butts Corner
Cat Elbow Corner
Catskill
Chili
Chili Center - (Pronounced Ch-eye-L-eye)
Chipmunk
Covert (It's hard to find)
Coxsackie
Day
Drunkard Creek
Fine
Fishkill
Florida
Flushing
Gayhead
Gayville
Halfmoon
Hicksville
Horseheads
Italy
Kill Buck
Lacawanna
Mexico
Mooers
Neversink
Perfection
Pleasantville
Root
Purchase
Quackenkill
Sheds
Triangle
Truthville
Tuckahoe
Tuxedo
Yonkers

You forgot:
Alabama
Alma
2 separate Albions
Alfred
Almond
Amity
Amsterdam
Andes
Angelica
Antwerp
Arcade
Argyle
Ashland
Athens and as everyone knows
Attica, Attica, Attica!!
Austerlitz
Aurora
Avon

and one of everyone's favorites:

Java!

That's just the A's

BTW, all the kills are found near rivers, creeks, or streams, because kill is actually the Dutch word for 'stream.

 

[PhysAssist]

Desire, paradise, and panic pa are all close by. Punxsutawney was an Indian name for "home of the sand flies"

Someone mentioned Intercourse, PA.

Ironically, it is in the Amish country of Lancaster County I believe.

 

[PhysAssist]

Where I live, it's how stuff is pronounced that is weird.

Whitworth, pronounced Witerth
Slaithwaite, pronounced Slowit
Mytholmroyd, no one seems to agree on that one, but it's funny listening to the train conductor call the stop.

Some of those English dialect-based pronunciations have persisted on this side of the pond as well as well, witness Gloucester and Worcester, Mass- Pronounced Glauwster and Wooster.

 

[Deere Dude]

Sweet Lips, TN
Ballplay, TN
Bugscuffle, TN

 

[RobertN]

As interesting as the towns are, it is also interesting some of the old mining names. N. Calif had lots of mines
You Bet
Shoo Fly
Big Buzzard
Come Back Consolidated
Big Chunk
Ever Mine
Loveless Mine
Lucky Jack
Poor Mine
Big Dipper

 

[Dftodd]

Here in arkansas there's a few.

Toad suck
Weiner
Bald knob (notice a theme here)
Fannie
Blue ball
Goober town
Greasy corner
Hickstown
Smackover
Stinking bay
Nimrod
Threeway

 

[stuckmotor]

There's a town near here named Ninety Six. I'm told some people won't go there because the zip code ends in 666.

 

[Al Mac]

When you want to be in your happy place try Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec Canada.

Al

 

[bigtiller]

When you want to be in your happy place try Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec Canada.

Al

Reminds me of Ha Ha Tonka state park in Missouri.

 

[Garycw]

Or... "Big Bone Lick"state park in northern ky.