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Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

I think about this one a lot re: the naming of the Himalayas and other landmarks (cc @nameshiv.bsky.social)

We have lots of Hill Hill Hill hills around Britain

And River Rivers as well.

I always imagine it being said slowly and with great pity.

Here in Finland, there's are jokes going around about the imagination of the founders of the city of Lahti ("Bay"), which is located by a . . . bay of lake Vesijärvi ("Water lake").

Install a lava lake nearby! Then it’ll be perfectly reasonable to have a lake called Water Lake.

Please tell me there's a Hamtonville around somewhere... Okay, unlikely on an etymological basis but still, I hope.

Tom Scott's fun video on Torpenhow Hill www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUyX...

Hill Hill Hill Hill, debunked, debunkedwww.youtube.com Torpenhow Hill, in the Lake District in the north-west of England, is the only place in the world whose name has the same word four different times. That's t...

Nipi means water in Cree. A glance at a map of Northern Ontario will reveal a lot of names starting with that and I always think of Your Finger You Fool when I see one. (Also to be fair Detroit just means narrowing in French and was clearly written on a map for that reason, first.)

That was less dumb than I was afraid of, considering I grew up looking at the Snowy Mountain range outside my windows.

And the kangaroo.

It's a great passage and it reminds me of a passage in another book in the opposite direction...

Non-neurotypical naming conventions: no we don't know how to just cut to the chase

Ah, story of Geysír is eternal.

lmao. i read this before i ever learned how true it was, and then i thought "just like terry pratchett said!!"

Too good to be true, but I saw it in Victoria Maritime museum, so... When Cook pulled into Victoria Island, the locals paddled out and yelled 'nootka, nootka' (go around) warning him of a hidden shoal. He hit the shoal and labeled them the Nootka'.

This sparked a memory of once camping near a place called Lihasulattamo Flesh/meat meltery Nobody enlightened me on that particular roadsign

This one solidified my love for Pratchett and Discworld. That and, in the same book, Rincewind accidentally triggering an existential crisis for trees, leading them to develop an entire religion devoted to ending up as toilet paper.

This is my first laugh out loud in the series (although not chronologically, I read them any old how.) Still, Skund sits squarely on second place among my favourite Discworld forests. My first is, obviously, the Effing Forest.

Sir Terry had these wonderful geographical names... not always easily spottable for a non-native speaker. Only after accidentally overhearing an English lady mangling Aix-en-Provence" did I decipher "Aix-en-Pains" . . . and predictably, publicly and embarrasingly lol'd. And that's in the last book!

I guess Effing Forest might also be a reference to Epping Forest, of whose existence I am only aware because of Peter Gabriel?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKr...

Heritage Minutes: Jacques Cartierwww.youtube.com Lost in translation? The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name (1534). For more information about Jacques Cartier, visit: http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jacques-cartier/ Heritage Minute Cast Cartier Pierre Carl Trudeau Young Man Pierre Auger Priest Jean-Louis Millette Chief Guy Provencher Young Aboriginal Jason Cavalier Aboriginal Marc Bacon Aboriginal Don Brisbois Aboriginal Francis Couteau Aboriginal Myles Henderson Aboriginal Mike Sandy Aboriginal Darrel Martin Aboriginal Daniel-Paul Bork Aboriginal Raymond Hervieux Sailor Mathieu Price Sailor Paul Fauvel Sailor Paolo Iovannone Sailor Pierre Goulet Sailor Michael Merovitz Sailor Gabriel-Jean Baule Sailor Gus Bucci Sailor Johnny Galati Sailor Guy Boutet Sailor Gerard Soler

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