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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > The Origin of Certain Place Names In the United States
 
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Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer
I remember learning about the Kickapoo Indians in middle school since I grew up near that town. Top tier tribe name imo.

Can you look up Toad Suck, Arkansas?

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Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer
Readers of this thread might enjoy this Wiki article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_names_considered_unusual?wprov=sfla1

TeachesOfPeaches posted:

Yeah, it's in alphabetical order. Unfortunately there is no page 420 :(

Badwater, CA is not in the book, but the description for the Bad Lands in South Dakota is interesting: 'It is said that the old French voyageurs described the region as "mauvaise terres pour traverser," meaning that it was a difficult country to travel through; from this the term has been carelessly shortened and translated into the present misnomer.'

So maybe Badwater had a longer and more descriptive name in Spanish or something that included the term 'agua mal' and it got butchered into Badwater.

A lot of town are named after other foreign towns or in foreign languages, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of the "Bad X" towns are named so because of German.

https://german.stackexchange.com/qu...%20authorities.

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