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

[paulagil]

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

Ha ha ho ho. Or am I just warped?

[EldritchCleavage]

London used to feature some interesting street names. A friend of mine used to work on Mincing Lane where the 'mollyhouses' or gay brothels were, and in the C18 one street with a lot of brothels on it was known as Gropecunt Lane.

[ILetHimKeep20Quid]

I think because I'm familiar with cockburn as a surname I've never thought anything odd about cockburnspath!

[GinOnTwoWheels]

Jelly

Have you never heard Mark (Radcliffe) and Lard on Radio 2? They have repeatedly referred to it as Penis Town. I and they do know the correct pronounciation. I do wonder however, if the pronounciation has 'evolved' in a similar way to Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.

Coincidentally, one of our clients is based there and I had to discuss them with a colleague the other day. I was careful to refer to them as 'the Pen- nis - tun site', while in my head I was going 'Penis Town, Penis Town, Penis Town' and just about not sniggering .

[KellyElly]

My four year old thinks the word shampoo is absolutely hilarious as 'poo' is the rudest word she knows

[MooseBeTimeForSnow]

There's a place just outside Scunthorpe with a street called Fanny Hands Lane.

[jamdonut]

I didn't think of it like that at all until this thread!

That's because it is Scun - thorpe...the 'cunt' bit doesn't sound out like that! (i.e. its not Scunt-horpe)

[junkfoodaddict]

Paulagil you leave near me!
I live near 'The Land of Nod' which is in fact just two farmhouses down a very, very, long narrow lane in an East Yorkshire village!

[junkfoodaddict]

Dead Lane is in Bainton!

[junkfoodaddict]

Bugthorpe! Makes my southern friends giggle, of course, as does Wetwang - nice fish and chips there.

[BoneyBackJefferson]

do you anal-yse everything?

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

:o Sallyingforth I do take any opportunity to throw Arse Heath into the conversation when we're on the IOW!

I can only offer the nearby area of Nork

[Glittertwins]

Definitely grim in Grimsby. Considering I grew up in the local area, I'm another one who never realised the Scunthorpe link, possibly as we all called it "Scummy Scunny". Oh the rose tinted naïveté!

[ILikeBirds]

Can't believe someone suggested Scunthorpe United were no longer in the league!

[Thisvehicleisreversing]

There's a village near me called Cockshutt.

Mildly amusing on its own but every year they have a festival named Cockfest

[paulagil]

junkfoodaddict i think i drove past a sign for the Land of Nod and thought it was a joke. Ditto the Land of Green Ginger.

I love the street in Beverley called Old Waste. It makes the York street names look tame.

[paulagil]

cockfest lolololololololol!

Twatt still wins though.

[phantomnamechanger]

my nana lives near the land of nod and wetwang, always makes me smile at those names when we go up north!

[Donkeyok]

There's Shitaton in Dorset

A classical music presenter with a plummy accent on radio 3 the other day referred to
'the Penis is ready to perform' (pianist)
me and my dh just looked and each other and rofl

[phantomnamechanger]

If we're doing funny/odd street names too , I offer Bad Bargain Lane, and Dreadnought Avenue

[DifferenceEngine]

Junk food and Paula.

I too live in the badlands somewhere between old waste, land of nod and Wetwang.

There's a hill nearby called caud nab ( cold nob)

[DifferenceEngine]

Laxton makes me laugh too, for no real reason.

[paulagil]

I've just done a bing map search for Land of Nod and it comes up next to Ladies Parlour. Who names these places??

[KissesBreakingWave]

I was terribly disappointed when I learned that Muff, in Donegal, has no sub-aqua club.

[PowerPants]

Shitterton is near me, and they are always getting their signposts pinched!

[DoJo]

Not a place name, but I once tried to find a wristwatch for my brother's birthday and was blocked by my work's internet filter.
On a more topical note, I live near Shingay cum Wendy, and Pidley but I wish this was my local: www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/20/2075/Cock/Staines