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

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

Ha ha ho ho. Or am I just warped?

I have been mispronouncing it all this time!

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

The word Scunthorpe is actually blocked on nethuns.

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

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

@Lego.

I always say it as Penis Town in my head.

I used to live near Broadbottom

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

Because Scunthorpe is that bad?

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

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

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

I love Wetwang.

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

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

Ruuuuuuuuuuuude.

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!

Sounds about right.

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

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).

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

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.

At least you don't live here

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

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

ROFL

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.

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

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