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?

[LilyTheSavage]

My son has a friend who's surname is Cundick..... :D

[ephemeralfairy]

Butchershole Bottom, Crapham Down and Upper Dicker, all in Sussex.

[NigellaPleaseComeDineWithMe]

I was just about to mention Sandy Balls.

Oh well - there's a place in USA called Hell, the sign gets frozen over on occaision and you can find pics with "now what?" underneath....

[ProfondoRosso]

I'm just back from the States, where there was an advert on TV regularly for a shop called Frugal Fannie's. I was knotting myself. Every. Time.

[morethanpotatoprints]

Not read all the thread so not sure if its been said a few times but

Ramsbottom and upper Ramsbottom always makes me snigger.

[PandaG]

not rude, but just funny - Stratton Strawless in Norfolk.

[Mittensonkittens]

I like the Piddles. Wyre Piddle, upper piddle, lower piddle. Dh calls them upper and lower pissbury.

There is also a farm by me called Bumble Hole farm. It sounds rude when you say it.

[SecondhandRose]

In Essex we have the rather lovely 'Fingringhoe'

[FryingNemo]

Mittensonkittens, you beat me to it. I love Wyre Piddle. Always makes me smile when I see it on the map.

My all time favourite place name has got to be Langton Maltravers. Not because it's rude, obviously, but because it sounds like a secret agent. A tall, dark and handsome secret agent - a bit like Pierce Brosnan but 20 years ago!

[JuneauWhoIAm]

Gaggin,
Ballylickey,
Ringaskiddy,
Belgooly,
Kilbrittain,

All near me.

Then Nobber up the country. Always get the giggles with that one :)

[TawdryTatou]

Hampole always makes me smirk.

Makes me think of 'pork sword'.

[Milkhell]

Wideopen always makes me chuckle. It seems very rude but I don't know why.

[Milkhell]

Pork sword!

[StillPukin]

I grew up near Nob End

[dogindisguise]

Great and Little Snoring in Norfolk
Wigwig in Shropshire

[scottishmummy]

Crossmyloof,Auchenshuggle
Both sound so monarch of glen,and they're actually in the weeg
Milngavie for the mirth of folk saying it wrong [pronounced millguy]

[miffybun73]

Penistone

[benjalamummy]

Wankdorf, a district of Bern in Switzerland ('dorf' meaning village) - saw Robbie Williams play at Wankdorf Stadium.

And Gland, near Lake Geneva.

[Ilanthe]

I am a big fan of Uncouth Road. Wouldn't want to live there mind, it's a few terraced houses and a couple of scrapyards.

[spinaltap]

I have always wondered how Catbrain (on the outskirts of Bristol) got its name.

[BabyMummy29]

Wyre Piddle

Middle/Over Wallop

Steeple Bumpstead

Sure there must be more

[MJP1]

Bushy Common, in Norfolk makes us chuckle every time we drive through it to visit friends.

[purplebaglady]

my childminder lived in a village called 'Shitterton', we are not far from Happybottom and l live in the Piddle Valley!

[NickL]

The I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue team of Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor, in the company of their esteemed chairman Humphrey Lyttelton, have been recording their BBC radio show around the UK for longer than any of them can remember ... that's about week - or twenty minutes in the case of Barry Cryer. At each venue Humph would present a short history of the location, written by Iain Pattinson, to the mutual delight of the audience, the team and their delightful scorer Samantha (who somehow always found time for a rewarding poke in the area's backstreets). We are privileged to present, in gazetteer form, the very best of Humph's local histories from Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to panel games'. As accurate as Wikipedia and as comprehensive as Reader's Digest, this unique guide tells you everything you never knew you wouldn't ever need to know about the background and inhabitants of Britain's most prominent towns and cities.<br /> <br /> The intelligent reader will waste no time in adding it to their collection.<br /> <br /> Bristol<br /> It was from Bristol in 1497 that John Cabot set off to find a new route to the Spice Islands by sailing north-west. He instead discovered a strange, hostile world which he named Newfoundland', until the natives explained that they actually called it Swansea'.<br /> <br /> Nottingham<br /> It's well documented in official records that the city's original name was Snottingham' or home of Snotts', but when the Normans came, they couldn't pronounce the initial letter S', so decreed the town be called Nottingham' or the home of Notts'. It's easy to understand why this change was resisted so fiercely by the people of Scunthorpe.

Brighton
A settlement is first recorded in Brighton as long as ago as 3000BC, when Celtic Druids practised their ancient worship of oaks, mistletoe and virgins, and indeed, oaks and mistletoe are still plentiful in Brighton.