[PW] Politically Incorrect Town Names?

[Adrian Smith]

I fear there should be a wordgame: pairing unsuitable cities:

Piddle (Dorset) "twinned with" Pee Pee (Ohio)

A.S.



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Will White
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Subject: Re: [PW] Politically Incorrect Town Names?


On 3/31/07, John Ptak <jfptak at thesciencebookstore.com> wrote:
>
> Hello.  I was wondering if there anyone knew of some one-stop shopping

> for information like this?  This came to mind while I was looking 
> through "The Lure of Roads in New Mexico" (1921) which was decorated 
> with a swastika (not horribly uncommon) and which described a town 
> named "Swastika".  The town changed its name "at the outbreak of the 
> war", and then drifted I guess, its way to ghost-towndom.  Apart from 
> having a run through some old gazetteers, does anyone know if this 
> data has been collected?  Thanks, John Ptak


These websites have lists of politically incorrect and humorous place
names: http://philbrodieband.com/jokes-jokes_town_names.htm
http://www.funnynames.com/?op=listnames&cat=2

The book "From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and
Inflame" by Mark Monmonier (University of Chicago Press, 2006) goes into
more detail on the subject of controversial place names.

-- 
Will White
Atherton Branch, San Mateo County Library
2 Dinkelspiel Station Lane, Atherton CA 94027 william.p.white at gmail.com
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