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If the C word is so bad, why is Scunthorpe spelt the way it is?

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paulagil · 06/11/2013 14:40

I piss myself laughing everytime I see it on the television weather charts.

Ha ha ho ho. Or am I just warped?

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CocacolaMum · 06/11/2013 14:43

I have been mispronouncing it all this time!

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magimedi · 06/11/2013 16:15

If Typhoo put the T in Britain who put the cunt in Scunthorpe?

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LegoAcupuncture · 06/11/2013 16:16

The word Scunthorpe is actually blocked on nethuns.

When I worked for Rail Enquiries I used to giggle at Penistone. Immature I know.

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JustAnotherFucker · 06/11/2013 16:18

I'm sure Scunny was a place long before the vernacular for vagina/vulva came into being Grin

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JustAnotherFucker · 06/11/2013 16:19

@Lego.

I always say it as Penis Town in my head.

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GemmaTeller · 06/11/2013 16:20

I used to live near Broadbottom Grin

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wem · 06/11/2013 16:25

My favourite is/are Great Cockup and Little Cockup in the Lakes Grin

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TigOldBitties · 06/11/2013 16:35

Because Scunthorpe is that bad?

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SmiteYouWithThunderbolts · 06/11/2013 16:37

The very polite-sounding lady announcing that "this is a Piccadilly line service to Cockfosters" has me in stitches every time.

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Wannabestepfordwife · 06/11/2013 16:39

People from back home would say its because it's full of them

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JustAnotherFucker · 06/11/2013 16:40

Wetwang is another that makes me guffaw, and I don't even know exactly why Confused

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YouTheCat · 06/11/2013 16:42

I love Wetwang. Grin

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paulagil · 06/11/2013 16:47

Penis tone lolololololololololololololol. Pratts Bottom is another. Apparently there is a village in northern Framce which is pronounced fook erfffff.

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paulagil · 06/11/2013 16:48

PS I live near Wetwang - am always tempted to add a k to it.

Ruuuuuuuuuuuude.

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Bearbehind · 06/11/2013 16:51

It's fun to be childish about place names- I always giggle when I see Newark because someone once pointed out its anagram to me!

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YouTheCat · 06/11/2013 16:54

Sounds about right. Grin

There's a place up this way called 'Shilbottle' - the first 'l' is very often crossed on road signs.

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EldritchCleavage · 06/11/2013 16:55

I give you the villages of Six Mile Bottom and Ugley Green. Apparently the Ugley Green W.I. changed its name (though the story may be apocryphal).

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JustAnotherFucker · 06/11/2013 16:58

I went to school in Sandwich, much hilarity there with the Ham signs etc but I much prefer the ruder northern funnyisms Grin

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pudseypie · 06/11/2013 17:16

My dm is from Scunthorpe. My dh is from Pratts Bottom. We now live in another place with Bottom in the name. I'm doomed.

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YouTheCat · 06/11/2013 17:17

At least you don't live here

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WigglyBraddins · 06/11/2013 17:21

I never noticed Penistone. I like a bit of Cockermouth.

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paulagil · 06/11/2013 20:25

youthcat YOU WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROFL

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whats4teamum · 06/11/2013 20:49

I grew up in Scunthorpe and didnt realise until I went to uni and someone laughed and said the inevitable "who put the cunt in Scunthorpe?".

Yes I can be that dim sometimes.

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TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 06/11/2013 20:53

Friends used to live near Little Coxwell and Great Coxwell. I felt sorry for the former.

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Antsmummy · 06/11/2013 21:00

bearbehind I never noticed that about Newark!
Just as you come off the A1 in lincs, heading to ancaster there's a place called bitchfield. I think I'd love to live there

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