[Ads-l] "Funniest" U.S. town names

[Chris Waigl]

The only one for Alaska is more of a juvenile point-and-giggle case that
stops being funny (and starts being interesting) when you learn about Aleut
(the language). Unalaska doesn't mean not-Alaska, but designates the island
in question (and the town on it) as "near the mainland" (with "Alaska"
being an Englishified version of the Aleut word for a landmass that juts
out into the ocean, if I understand it correctly).

Genuinely funny names that come to mind would be Central (anything but),
Deadhorse (oh, well), North Pole (south-west of where I live), and maybe
even Nome (with Cape Nome relatively credibly named based on
someone's penciled note "name?" on a map next to the landform that
protrudes into the Bering Sea).

Chris

On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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