Onomatopoeia places.

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10-24-2017, 09:13 AM
Ash

Onomatopoeia places.

Tring!

Are there any others?

I am going to Tring! today. I expect I'll bump into its most famous resident: Graham "three yellows" Poll.
10-24-2017, 09:17 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Ash

Tring!

Are there any others?

I am going to Tring! today. I expect I'll bump into its most famous resident: Graham "three yellows" Poll.

Was he the one they used to call, 'The Thing from Tring', or 'Scholesey's Dad'? If so, I saw hm one in a bar in Weymouth whilst out drinking with Dorset Gooner. True story.

Bangkok!
10-24-2017, 09:21 AM
Rich

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Originally Posted by Ash

Tring!

Are there any others?

I am going to Tring! today. I expect I'll bump into its most famous resident: Graham "three yellows" Poll.

Blimey... This really is scraping the barrel in terms of post quality.
10-24-2017, 09:27 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Rich

Blimey... This really is scraping the barrel in terms of post quality.

Yet it is still better than any of yours.
10-24-2017, 10:14 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Ash

Tring!

Are there any others?

I am going to Tring! today. I expect I'll bump into its most famous resident: Graham "three yellows" Poll.

I've always like the sound of Wabash! Indiana.

Of course, we all know the only UK place name to have an actual exclamation mark, don't we?
10-24-2017, 10:16 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Burney

I've always like the sound of Wabash! Indiana.

Of course, we all know the only UK place name to have an actual exclamation mark, don't we?

Westward Ho!

Stupid fúcking name for a place. Town. Whatever.
10-24-2017, 10:22 AM
Burney

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Westward Ho!

Stupid fúcking name for a place. Town. Whatever.

Yes. Not to be confused with this, of course...

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...which is a Westwood Ho'.
10-24-2017, 10:24 AM
Pat Vegas

I can't think of any.
I am way off form and jet lagged and slept 1 hour in the past 48 hours :-(

how about Shap which I think is up north.
10-24-2017, 10:31 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

I can't think of any.
I am way off form and jet lagged and slept 1 hour in the past 48 hours :-(

how about Shap which I think is up north.

Indeed. It's between Cockermouth and Carlisle - quite close to Egremont.
10-24-2017, 10:36 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Burney

Indeed. It's between Cockermouth and Carlisle - quite close to Egremont.

But, crucially, it doesn't sound like what it is, so I can't accept it as onomatopaeic.
10-24-2017, 10:36 AM
Pokster

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Originally Posted by Burney

Indeed. It's between Cockermouth and Carlisle - quite close to Egremont.

I like the name Bedlam, a little village near Harrogate
10-24-2017, 10:39 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Burney

Indeed. It's between Cockermouth and Carlisle - quite close to Egremont.

There are two Shaps? The one I know is on the A6 south of Penrith. It has no petrol station. :-(

Also Egremont is south of Cockinmouth, not between it an Carlisle. I fear your compass is unwell today.
10-24-2017, 10:46 AM
Ash

Dundrum!

....
10-24-2017, 10:46 AM
Luis Anaconda

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Originally Posted by Ash

There are two Shaps? The one I know is on the A6 south of Penrith. It has no petrol station. :-(

Also Egremont is south of Cockinmouth, not between it an Carlisle. I fear your compass is unwell today.

No petrol station, eh? That's the Shap of things to come really
10-24-2017, 10:49 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by ash

dundrum!

....

it doesn't sound like what it is!
10-24-2017, 10:57 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Sir C

it doesn't sound like what it is!

Drum is well onomatopoeiaic imo. And dun is a drummy sound too.
10-24-2017, 11:10 AM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by Ash

Dundrum!

....

I was there on Saturday night, 3 pints of Roundstone and some tapas.

Olé.

:sombrero:
10-24-2017, 11:12 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by SWv2

I was there on Saturday night, 3 pints of Roundstone and some tapas.

Olé.

:sombrero:

Sounds like it should be in the six counties to me. Like Ballymacash.
10-24-2017, 11:22 AM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by Ash

Sounds like it should be in the six counties to me. Like Ballymacash.

There is a load of them - Co Down, Tipperary, Dublin.

:nod:
10-24-2017, 11:25 AM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Ash

Tring!

Are there any others?

I am going to Tring! today. I expect I'll bump into its most famous resident: Graham "three yellows" Poll.

Wetwang

Richard Whiteley was its honourary mayor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetwang
10-24-2017, 11:28 AM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

Clap 'em

err .. I shall leave immediately

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