Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by sdiq on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:59AM (#25226444)

Kumamoto in Japan has a similarly bad name in Swahili. If you break the city's name into 2 four-letter words, you get vagina (kuma) and hot (moto) in Swahili. Thankfully, Swahili speakers are not going to harass this city's residents anytime soon.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by lb1lf on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:09AM (#25227236)

In Norway, we've got a place called Hell; you pass through it on the way from the town of Trondheim to its airport.

A friend of mine was born in a place called Time on the southwest coast, and quips after just about every flight that he was born in Time and had to go through Hell to get wherever he's at.

Oh, and as a special treat for the Germans reading this - a former colleague's last name was Ficken. He did not enjoy checking into hotels in Germany.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by vegardlarsen on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:10AM (#25227660)

The sign at Hell train station says "Hell Gods-expedition" (which is a slightly old Norwegian spelling meaning something like "Hell - Goods reception").

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by Aardwolf on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:19AM (#25227708)

Hell is also the word for a blonde beer and there is a beer named like this after the town:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_Hell

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by dirtnugget on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:44AM (#25227468)

There was also the case of a guy with the last name Hell (which means "bright" in German). He wanted to be part of a church in the US and they denied him

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by bostik on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:51AM (#25227511)

At least the Finns are routinely turning this to their advantage. When there is an international (tech) conference in Helsinki, those flying in to the capital may be greeted with a sponsored banner:

Welcome to HEL

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by lucideer on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:49AM (#25227501)

I feel like the worst has to be Bastardstown, Ireland.

The main spoken language in Ireland is English and the construction of the name strongly implies it was not an etymological accident.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by ivanche on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:56AM (#25227914)

In a fierce competition with Scunthorpe.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by ochrist on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:58AM (#25227155)

There's a town in Denmark called Middelfart ...

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by mads on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:51AM (#25227514)

Never thought of what Middelfart means in english. Now i cannot unsee it.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by sdiq on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:36AM (#25229464)

Somalia too had Dhuusamareeb, which in Somalia directly means 'can't stop farting'. I understand the president recently issued a directive of a name change for the city.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by anonymoushn on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:32AM (#25227794)

I met an indie techno producer who called himself Kura-C which means "penis" in Serbian. He enjoyed learning this fact.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by ivanche on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:03AM (#25227964)

Pula in Croatia, for similar reason famous between Romanians :) (meaning "dick"). Also, Brest in France.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by signaru on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:19AM (#25226869)

meanwhile in Turkey, Batman can be found.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by tetris11 on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:48AM (#25227072)

Turkey has bad city names even in its own language.

Along the north coast, you will find a town called Çarşamba (Wednesday), which if you continue to drive for a few hours is followed by a town called Perşembe (Thursday).

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by skrebbel on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:02AM (#25227176)

The name of the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, means Monday as well iirc.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by dullgiulio on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:37AM (#25227427)

Most probably all these names just indicate market day...

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by HorkHunter on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:46AM (#25227476)

Sounds plausible,

Similar to weekday names in Portuguese.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by nxpnsv on Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:34AM (#25235994)

Also in Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batman#Places_named_after...

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by tpoacher on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:47AM (#25227065)

Yeah, you know nobody's going to mess with Batman though.

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Re:Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging by bryanrasmussen on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:48AM (#25227490)

The joker who did would have to be crazy!

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