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?

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.

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

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 .

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

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

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)

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!

Dead Lane is in Bainton!

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

do you anal-yse everything?

: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

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!

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

There's a village near me called Cockshutt.

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

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.

cockfest lolololololololol!

Twatt still wins though.

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

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

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

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)

Laxton makes me laugh too, for no real reason.

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

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

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

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