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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by krsdcbl on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:18PM (#25224502)
There's actually another village called Fugging in Lower Austria, i assume the name was chosen to keep it phonetically close to Fucking but within the linguistic boundaries of "common" village names.

Also, a "Fock" is a pig in Austrian and Bavarian dialects, so "Focking" would be indicative of "pigs place" or "where the pigs are from", which hardly sounds like a desirable name for ones village.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by Ichthypresbyter on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:12AM (#25227244)
Swindon ("Pig Hill", a large town of about 180,000 people in Southwest England) is just one of many places named after pigs- why wouldn't you name your village after its main agricultural product?

My personal favourite is the small Devon village of Toller Porcorum, which has historically also been called "Swines Toller" and "Hog Toller".

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by IndySun on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:22AM (#25226264)
Pigs as dirty is an outdated, mostly religious based, meme.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/the-joy-of-pigs-smart-clean-...

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by mathieuh on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:28AM (#25226585)
Regardless, there are many idiomatic phrases that treat pigs as undesirable, e.g., "you filthy pig", "I'm sweating like a pig", "you've made a right pig's ear of that" etc.

While your campaign to restore the dignity of the pig is admirable, I'm not sure it's going to catch on

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by IndySun on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:06PM (#25247171)
I try. Maybe I might make one person think differently. Thanks for noticing.
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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by mulmen on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:33AM (#25226314)
Ok but the town wasn't named after pigs so why change it now?
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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by lostlogin on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:17PM (#25230506)
Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal.
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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by IndySun on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:04PM (#25247160)
Only if a human puts it there.
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