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jjgreentoday at 3:44 PM1 replyview on HN

Fartown? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartown%2C_Huddersfield


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bitwizetoday at 3:56 PM

I wasn't referring to place names that sound like dirty words (as Couch St. sounds like "Cooch"); an uncountable number of Gropecunt Lanes in England would certainly qualify. I was rather referring to place names with counterintuitive pronunciations locals are expected to know, so that outsiders are immediately clocked by pronouncing it wrong. Couch St. definitely qualifies in both categories though.