Let me hear some other naughty names from across the globe!

@RonnieOP

2 жыл бұрын

I would suggest Darmstadt-Wixhausen Darm referring to parts of the gastrointestinal tract while wichsen (speak: vixen) refers to sexual self satisfaction (with a rather rude connotation, I might add)

@gerardacronin334

2 жыл бұрын

Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 🇨🇦

@leiocera2433

2 жыл бұрын

Here in Germany, there is "Busenberg" (EN: Boobie Mountain (roughly)) and "Wichsberg" (EN: Jerk off (according to the google translator))

@yaagodourado

2 жыл бұрын

In my country there is a city that is called "Não me toque", that means "Don't Touch me"

@lasarith2

2 жыл бұрын

4:33 KZread idc here’s an Advert.

In German language rude names in Germany for example is the municipality "Kotzen", which can be translated as "to vomit".There also is the part of a town named "Clauen", which with slightly different spelling but same pronounciation "Klauen" is a slang word for "to steal".

@DarthSanguine

Жыл бұрын

How are those rude?

There is a village in Hong Kong call Ma Liu Shui which means "Water horses feed on" but it also phonetically sounds like "Horse Piss Water." It isn't a profanity, but just sounds funny and most people think that's is the actual name of the village if they didn't know the written name. The train station at that village changed its name to University to better reflect a more well known landmark, but people still joke about how the rail company just didn't like how rude the name sounded. Maybe because of how iconic the name is, this little village is very well known in Hong Kong and it even has an idiom: "Long road to Ma Liu Shui" or "As far as Ma Liu Shui" because of the long journey to get to it during the semi-urbanized past.

My favourite "normal in English but rude/weird in other languages" place is Todmorden in West Yorkshire: in German "Tod" means death; and "morden" means "to kill". Surprisingly I don't think many German goths travel there to take selfies in front of the signs that say "Death-kill".

@DasIllu

2 жыл бұрын

even better, it complies with the language rules to a) make a composit word, b) to be a noun and a verb. So it would mean more like "murder to death"

@wendychavez5348

2 жыл бұрын

That's dark and awesome!

@Jan_Koopman

2 жыл бұрын

@@DasIllu, "breaking news! Local man from Todmorden murdered to death by German tourists!"

@RonnieOP

2 жыл бұрын

@@DasIllu Nope, that would be "totmorden", "Todmorden" would be more like "to murder death" (as in murdering death itself)

@DasIllu

2 жыл бұрын

@@RonnieOP yeah no... "zu tode morden" I know, german can be a bit chaotic. But "tot" is the adjective meaning dead while "Tod" is the noun meaning death. And i kinda have an expertise in the german language.... because i am german ;-)

Netherlands: - Trutjeshoek -> 'trut' = 'bitch' (modern, insulting meaning), 'hoek' = 'corner' -> 'Bitches corner'; - Kampeersnol -> 'kamperen' = 'to camp', 'snol' = 'slut' -> 'Camping slut' (In reality, it's 'kampeers+nol' ('nol' = 'sand hill, dune'); - Oude zeug -> 'oud(e)' = 'old'; 'zeug' = 'female pig'/'fat woman' -> 'old female pig' / 'old fat woman'; - 'Kruishaar' = 'cross hair', relating to grass ('hair') near a crucifix ('cross'), but Dutch will immediately think of pubic hair, because 'kruis' also means 'crotch'; - Lull -> 'lul' = 'dick', now renamed 'Sint Antoniusveld' ('Saint Anthony's field'); - Rectum.

@sandradermark8463

Жыл бұрын

Rectum 🤣😂 Oude Zeug (Zeug is like Sow) 🤣😂

Intercourse without the Sexual modifier only means connections between people as in social intercourse being chit chat!

I like how you had the Crap family wear brown clothes xD

Personally I think these are more funny than outright rude, but different strokes for different folks. In Denmark we have a small collection of funny names. For speakers of Danish we have - Sæd, which translates to sperm - Tarm, which translates to intestine - Lem, which has a couple of different meanings, but very often refers to a man's sexual organ For English speakers there's Middelfart, which is probably the most well-known one, and if you're up for some English slang, there's Ho and Hobro

@lakrids-pibe

2 жыл бұрын

Lem = 'member' in english, with the same double meaning. Another one is *Thisted* - 'tis' being danish for pee. You can phone (ringe) from *Ringsted* to *Thisted,* but you can't pee from Thisted to Ringsted. The origin of the name is "place dedicated to Tyr" (the norse god -same as in Tuesday) ("th" in danish is not pronounced like in english. It's basicly just a "t". Think of Thailand) For english speakers: *Lolland* - it has nothing to do with "laughing out lod." *Århus* - not ♩ ♪ in the middle of our street. ♫ ♬ *Middelfart* is (the town at) the ferry crossing in the middle. Ferry crossing =færge overfart. "Fart" means speed or motion in danish.

My favorite place related name is a street in England called Gropecunt Lane. And yeah, the name means pretty much what it says. There are several of them in England they were areas trafficked by prostitutes.

@AaronOfMpls

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, from back before the C-word was a swear word.

Patrick, I recommend doing a video on the unusual place names of Newfoundland Island, Canada.

At my job here in Perth, Australia I had to call an ambulance for a Mr Wanke. Very awkward moment for me.

@stefanfranke5651

2 жыл бұрын

Typical german name pronounced 'V-ah-nk-a' with a short e at the end pronounced like the article 'a'. Hope that helps if you ever happen to call an ambulance for Mr Wanke again.

If only clickbait-y lists for these place names were as informative.

@hoppipolli2

2 жыл бұрын

Booger Hollow in Arkansas USA

Glad to see my favorite Austrian place represented online

The town of Bitchfield reminded me of one time at a gaming session some three decades ago now. We had one player whos character had found a stray dog and insisted on taking it everywhere the group went. Our newest player, perturbed by this, asked her what the dog's name was, to which she replied "I don't know." He said, Okay, I'll call it Spot." He then asked what sex the dog was, to which she gave the same answer. The guy then turned to the Game master (GM) and asked "Is the dog male or female, a cur or a bitch?" The GM rolled a die, and said "Female.", to which the guy said "Okay, it's Spot, the Bitch." Well, the young lady got angry and left, only to come back some minutes later and go on a five-minute screaming rant...not at the guy who made the comment, but her boyfriend across the table.

In Calgary, Canada there is a neighborhood and major street named Shaganappi, a word from the local Cree language. Visitors from England really seem to get a kick out of this name.

While visiting Athol New Zealand, my friend and I started speaking with lisps. We called each other athols.

@wendychavez5348

2 жыл бұрын

I think me and the guy I met on the bus to Aoraki/Mt.Cook started speaking with backward lisps in that area. Plenty of local eyes rolling.

@riotandhalf

2 жыл бұрын

There's a part of U.S. Route 202 from Athol, MA to Belchertown, MA that I've heard people call "the alimentary canal"

Mike marker 420 just outside of Denver Colorado on I70 was replaced with mile marker 419.99 because people kept stealing it. Not a rude place name, but it fits in with people stealing signs because they’re funny.

@wendychavez5348

2 жыл бұрын

5 days after taxes come due every spring is a big party around Albuquerque for similar reason. I'm grateful to wear a mask that day, because I'm allergic and really enjoy breathing.

@zerotwoisreal

2 жыл бұрын

did it go 50 feet back?

@erraticonteuse

2 жыл бұрын

Conversely, there's a bridge between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts that is marked out in "smoots"-named after an MIT fraternity pledge who was dared to let the brothers of his frat measure the bridge by laying him down over and over and marking every 10 lengths, except for when they marked 69 instead of 70.

Intercourse, Pennsylvania easy perfect example, especially if you know what Pennsylvania means: (Sex, Penn's Woods). Of course, it could also simply mean "Commerce, William Penn's Forest." Intercourse literally means communication, exchange, commerce. This is why the truly "naught" version is sexual intercourse. But it's certainly invites snickering. I'm quite happy that Microsoft didn't name it smell server intercourse, but rather Exchange. However, when the mail server crashes or isn't updated and becomes a vector for malware, I refer to it with the name of that quaint Austrian village.

In Germany, we have a quite large town (half a million inhabitants), which cognates swith Billesfield, the city of Bielefeld. (On the other hand, Bielefeld does not exist. See "Bielefeld conspiracy" in your friendly online encyclopedia). There is also the joke about doing a city tour, visiting Kissing, Petting, Fucking and Wedding. The exact sequence of the towns is up to personal taste, but Wedding is quite far away (now a part of Berlin), while the other three are clustered together (near the border between Germany and Austria). A few weeks ago, Fucking officially renamed itself into Fugging, to avoid further stealing or vandalizing of the town signs and streams of tourists just there for the pictures, without actually contributing to local business.

I love that the Crap family were all dressed in brown. 🤣

@gerardacronin334

2 жыл бұрын

Thomas Crapper invented the ballcock and S bend used in flushing toilets. 🚽 However, the word “crap” existed before he was born.

@spddiesel

2 жыл бұрын

@@gerardacronin334 and what does any of that have to do with shirt color?

In Norway there's a town called "Hell", which comes from an old word for a cave under a cliff.

@waltdoherty540

2 жыл бұрын

There's a town in Michigan by that name. Every once in a while some news organization files a report in Dec. or Jan. about the place freezing over.

@PeterBuvik

2 жыл бұрын

Which coincidently also means Luck

I used to live near a place called Pratts Bottom!

(Not rude, but thought I’d share anyway) My grandma has lived on Gay street for upwards of 50 years. It was named after an explorer’s surname, and the term had a different meaning anyway when the street was made. The sign goes missing a lot.

@erraticonteuse

2 жыл бұрын

There's a part of Martha's Vineyard that used to be called Gay Head but is now called Aquinnah, ostensibly out of respect for the indigenous inhabitants of the area, but mostly because LOL gay LOL head.

In Indonesia, there is a town called Fakfak, and it's pronounced pretty closely to the English swear word.

Leaving a like and comment to do my part to offset the KZread algorithm's bias against this type of video

@wendychavez5348

2 жыл бұрын

It helps! Liking and replying to comments helps too--it's an engagement within an engagement.

„No Mum, it‘s not what it looks like, we‘re just paying tribute to Focko. Yes, it‘s a nude cult.“

There used to be a Bastard Township in Ontario Canada but it’s gone now. I think it was adopted by a larger township.

@mamadoedeer1577

2 жыл бұрын

Lolol!!! The Bastard Township was adopted by a larger town, now it finally has a LEGITIMATE name!

probably should have figured wank was vank, GOD DAMN IT! I FORGOT THAT MY MOM WENT TO GERMANY FOR A COFERENCE AND TOLD ME THAT W'S ARE V SOUNDS IN GERMAN! also she was considered late for a meeting only once

Demonitised just means _you_ don't earn advertising revenue, however YT may earn from adverts on your upload. Sounds fair.

In Estonia we have a place called Kanepi which means weed or hemp 🌱

"The Craps" are all dressed... in brown. Love it.

In Massachusetts, we have a ton that used to be called Gay Head, but they changed the name back in the 90s because they were sick of being the butt of jokes. The name refers to a colorful cliff near the ocean. It is now called “Aquinnah”

There are a few towns and places here in Southern Africa called Assagay…I always get a little chuckle when I come across them on the gps or something

*invokes Spartacus* I‘m Focko! No I‘m Focko! I am Focko! I‘m Focko, the patron saint of rude place names!

@WerewolfLord

2 жыл бұрын

No wonder Focko had to be renamed Fennekin in English. Anyway I'd thought that the name of Fucking had something to do with foxes, as there's a neighbouring village named Wolfing.

I wonder what font Name Explain uses for its labels (the slab-serif).

Can you read the fox in sox in a video ? You have a Good speaking voice for dr. Seuss books.

There's a farm in Kirkcudbrightshire , Scotland called Little Cocklick , and no I have no idea why but you can see it on the map.

In northern Ontario Canada, there is a town called Hornepayne ..... officially the middle "e" is silent.

I’ve been to F-ng Austria, Hell Michigan, and Ho Denmark.

@HalfEye79

2 жыл бұрын

There is a bunch of cities or parts of cities in Germany and Austria with related names: Kissing, Petting, Fucking, Wedding.

The Croatian city of Pula always amuses is Romanians because that’s the word for ‘dick’ in out language. It was funny when I worked as travel agent and people came to enquire about a holiday in Croatia and they pronounced or heard the name.

"Wanken" = To Sway. Swaying is a back and forth motion. Me thinks there IS an etymological connection between this German word and the English rude word. 😄

I was surprised to find 尻手 _Shitte_ in Japan, literal meaning being "ass-hand".

In Austria near a small unknown village called Hallstatt there's a mountain valley called Arschlochwinkel. Literally asshole corner in Englisch.

There is a town called Dildo in Newfoundland.

These are some highlights from Spain: Valdezorras: valde is a common prefix for city/town names in Spanish and zorras means, among other things, “b*tches” El Limbo, Los Infiernos and El Purgatorio: These are 3 hamlets that are next to each other. Their names mean “The Limbo” (idk if limbo is an actual word in English), “The Pits of Hell” (the literal translation would be “The Hells”) and “The Purgatory” La Polla: Literally means “The Dick”. This is also an expression in Spanish meaning “awesome” or “very good” (I think it’s only a Spain thing? Any Latin Americans please correct me if I’m wrong)

@Neferkariusz31

2 жыл бұрын

Not Latin American or Spanish, but I'll comment the La Polla part anyway. In Polish we have something close to such word: an adjective "zajebisty" which means "f***ing awesome" and is derived from a swearword. So I guess it's not only a Spanish thing.

@oanaomg7298

2 жыл бұрын

In Romanian, ‘pula’ is the exact opposite. If something is/works ‘ca pula’ (=like a dick), it means it’s terrible. And if something is ‘pizda’ (=cunt), means it’s top tier.

7:19 Bastard can mean ‘of abnormal shape or irregular size’ so maybe its that.

Finally, a video I can relate to.

I approve of the background music.

I frequently pass the sign for Big Bone Lick State Park. "Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. Mammoths are believed to have been drawn to this location by a salt lick deposited around the sulfur springs."

Got some in Finnish Paskasaari: Shit Island, a small island in Kymijoki, a bit south of Anjala. Naimalampi: Fuck Pond (as in "for fucking"), a small pond in Suomussalmi. And my favorite, Juostenpaskattu: Shat While Running (yes, really), a small pond in Ylöjärvi Then there's various places with vittu, horo, huora, tissi, as some part of the name, but I picked the above three because I saw Paskasaari as a middle schooler and it stuck with me, "Fuck Pond" sounds like something John Oliver might say, and "Shat While Running" is just so unique among place names.

@selenajarv8763

2 жыл бұрын

In Estonia we have a place called Kanepi which means weed or hemp

I bought your two books. They are great.

5:27 "...I'm kicking the video off with this one" What the crap?!

Skip to 5:00 to get to him actually talking about rude place names.

For The Netherlands i would say Helmond meaning hell mouth

The real video starts at min 4:33

Also word for a female dog is possibly just a word for female animals. Deer meant animal at some point and in Dutch and German it still does "dier" and "Tier" respectively, but "bist" in Frisian. The deer is called "cerf" (s'air) in modern French, and the female of that animal is called "biche". That being said, if you want to say to someone, usually a loved one "hello, my dear" you say "salut/bonjour/etc. ma biche". This makes me wonder if there is a connection between "deer" and "dear" I mean killing a deer could bring you a quite dear fine to pay, especially in a time where hunting them was reserved to nobility and/or royalty.

Pula in Croatia is funny to romanians because in romanian it is the slang word for penis used when cussing (basically the city is called "D*ck", that is it would be if it would be in romanian). Everyone always brags when they visit. (it's an excuse to overuse the word)

Billesfelt is very similar to Bielefeld (town in Germany) ps there is a road in Northamptonshire called " bell end" 🤣

The view from Ligma Butte is amazing!

@wendychavez5348

2 жыл бұрын

I'll have to renew my passport just so I can take a wide-shot selfish from there! We have Elephant Butte in southern New Mexico.

@rustymustard7798

2 жыл бұрын

@@wendychavez5348 LOL I live on a tall mountain peak, i'm literally sitting at my desk looking out the window and legit can ALMOST see Elephant Butte from the state next door, but there's another mountain range blocking the view haha.

@wendychavez5348

2 жыл бұрын

New Mexican elephants apparently have small buttes.

@rustymustard7798

2 жыл бұрын

@@wendychavez5348 Yeah, i'm a big butte man myself, i love big buttes!

I live in Wilsonville!

They're not "rude" but my part of the US has town/community names like Rocky Head, Slapout (Slap Out), and Friendship.

why that "music" in the background? I find that sounds like those hurt my ears so much that I am not able to watch the video any more. This time I gave up at 1:41

Great idea to show Jon Snow!

In Poland there's a rock called "Skurwysyn" it sounds like "z kurwy syn" meaning "son of a bitch" also "kurwy" is another case ending for the most common Polish swear word of "kurwa".

In my country there is a city that is called literally "Don't-Touch-me"

I'm quiet early today mind giving a heart

I live next to Gaylorde Ave.

Hi Name Explain, Here in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania we have a town with a most unusual name. I won't say it here but it is the Amish capital. Won't you consider making a video on it?

@paisan8766

2 жыл бұрын

Blue Ball?

@simplicitylost

2 жыл бұрын

If you’re talking about Intercourse, he mentions it in the video at the beginning-that he doesn’t consider it a swear word.

@adrianbara-popa9960

2 жыл бұрын

@@simplicitylost That's the one I was thinking about. And I realize he mentions it but I would be interested in learning about its origin, especially since it wasn't the town's original name and it was changed to Intercourse.

@adrianbara-popa9960

2 жыл бұрын

@@paisan8766 wasn't what I was thinking of but that would be a good one for a video too.

@simplicitylost

2 жыл бұрын

@@adrianbara-popa9960 If I had to guess I’d say it’s a more literal breakdown of the different parts of the word: inter + course - so inter meaning to connect (like an interstate highway) and course meaning way or the way you’re going. So the intercourse would be where two places meet.

Video starts at 5:00

My mom is from Jamaica and her family has property on Hog Shit Lane. There is a clear reason for it lol

Oh good, your mic is fixed👌🏽

I think there is a map where someone drives in the UK through the most rude sounding names.

I know of "Gammelshausen" and "Gaildorf" both sound silly to germans. the firts one would be something like Rottinghouse and the second one is only one letter away from meaning Horny Village and the best part of that is it gets spoken like it is spellt right. sorry for bad english

I've been a muff diver for many's the year, And I spent all me money on muff diving gear.. The snorkel, the goggles, the muff diving tank. When I'm not a muff diving I'm having a w

Famously there is a place called "Hell" in norway, but it just means (amongst other things) good fortune (not sure if that is the primary meaning though). We also love the city of "pula" in croatia, which in Norwegian is a kind of slang for "sex". We also have a place that is actually called the "trolls penis" so not too subtle:/

there's a city in Algeria callled "Tizi" it means plateau in Tamazight (the language of the area) which is harmless but in my dialect of Arabic it means "My pp"

Ah yes, name explain, the edgiest of KZread channels

Here in Chile, we have the "Polla Chilena de Beneficencia" building which is our national lottery headquarters. The name means nothing to us, but in European Spanish "polla" is a slang term for the penis, so, pretty much all Spaniards that visit our country laugh their asses off when they see it.

Happy Advent *

Shitterton "farmstead on the stream." You could have tried. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitterton.

Not rude, but amusing -- Boring, Oregon.

Well, we are right to say that Sebastian is the patreon saint of Fu**ing (and other cities)

Maybe he should also do rude place names in every state.

Cheekiness rules!

I think Patrick had some cheeky Nando's before this video

Meh, these are more like misunderstandings, here in Romania we've got town and village names that literally mean what they sound like and it's not a coincidence, just the difference between older forms of our language and modern Romanian, which deemed (somewhat arbitrarily) some of these old words as rude or offensive, even though they're still widely used and not considered slang even in modern dictionaries (just archaic or regional). Here's a few examples: Fututa (the fucked one), Curva (the whore), Madulari (dicks/penises), Buda (the toilet), Căcăcioasa (the shitty town), Baicoi (you [are a] testicle), Muereasca (town of the wives), Pârţeştii de Jos (the downhill farting people), Amarastenii de Sus (the uphill poor people), Udaţi-Mânzu (wet the pony / go take a piss).

You missed Cockermouth :P

A rude family name I came across at work recently was Titcume. Yep, that name really does exist.

The map of Tasmania is full of hilarious and rude names. Lots of bottoms and knobs.

@stefanfranke5651

2 жыл бұрын

I think he already did a video about Tasmania a while ago.

I was raised near Intercourse Pennsylvania and there is a t-shirt that was made that has a road map that shows the following Amish towns in order that you would drive through them: Intercourse, Bird In Hand, Blue Ball and Paradise. That is not the correct order but I'm sure that you can figure out the order.

Rural Lower Saxony has its fair share of weird location names by purpose. The Electoral Principality of Brunswick-Luneburg, later kingdom of Hannover, held a general land survey in the 1760s to 1780s. While the maps were extraordinarily detailed and a milestone in cartography, the surveyors were court officials, and they didn't speak the Low German dialect of the populace at all. They probably barely spoke German, even, for in court circles the language of nobility, intellicence and society was French at the time. When the surveyors registered the features of a municipality, they did as every uppity snobby conquistador did when meeting savages in the wild. They asked them for the places' names, didn't understand and made up something that sounded vagely alike, possibly funny and disrespectful, expressing their disgust over those uneducated sweaty horsefood eating plebs that spoke their native tongue instead of fancy alien stuff, were bent and dirty from all the work they did for the nobs and resorted to rye and such because wheat was too expensive.

Fug means “fart”. The town Fucking changed its name to Fugging. lol

don´t talk about a pick (pik) to danes it is the word for ´´cock´´

Fastest notification tap in the west.

Then there is Condom, France

My home nation of Austria used to be known for its rich culture and famous people like Mozart, Kafka or Gustav Klimt. Nowadays it is known as the home of Adolf Hitler, that guy who locked up his kids and grandkids in his basement for 20 years, and of course that famous town in Upper Austria: _Fucking_ ʕʘ‿ʘʔ

@ACPushkin

2 жыл бұрын

By the way, they changed their name to _Fugging_ as their village sign also kept getting stolen. :D

Was that PAC?

Fucking just Changed the name because the replacement of the stolen signs got to expensive

Peccato che Vergate sul Membro non esista davvero

Fun fact: Uranus jokes are only funny in English.