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British towns with funny names


karamazov80

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Pretty amusing, no question.

What came to mind is, that we do have a larger city called Darmstadt - that'd be Guttown. And I just found out that there is a very tiny village - around 100 people - in Austria named F*cking. :ohmy: No offense, that's the original name, no translation!

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Yeah I've heard of F*cking! But being a 40 year old virgin...

Sir, with that sentence you officially made my day! :lol:

I guess the thing is, that the english expression "f*cking" isn't that well known in German-speaking regions for the elder generations. Otherwise there might be a petition to actually change that name. But as I see it, the town got its name from the founder named Focko. Adding the suffix "ing" - as in "ting", an assembly, often used in Germanic societies - just says, that it's kind of a settlement. But it's still pretty funny after all!

:P

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