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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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