Comments on: Will You Still Love Me?

By: The Textual Healer

The Textual Healer — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:49:16 +0000

Thanks for that. I particularly liked some of the Welsh place names:
ABERYSTWYTH (n.) - A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
DOLEGELLAU (n.) -The clump, or cluster, of bored, quietly enraged, mildly embarrassed men waiting for their wives to come out of a changing room in a dress shop.
MAENTWROG (n. Welsh) - Celtic word for a computer spelling mistake.

By: michael

michael — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:10:29 +0000

@The Textual Healer: Douglas Adams and John Lloyd co-wrote a book in the 80’s called The Meaning of Liff that attempted to attach otherwise useless names of villages to new phenomena that were crying out for a name. The Wikipedia entry will lead you to the complete list of place names - good fun.

By: The Textual Healer

The Textual Healer — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:29:13 +0000

West Wittering - one of those lovely English place names that sounds like verb. Like Hastings, Dorking (which sounds like something you wouldn’t want tell your mother about) and Kettering (did Ian Dury never rhyme this with catering?). This one sounds like it shoudl be twinned wiuth Westminster.
I’ll have fun (or nightmares) playing with the map in the Dutch context.