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sounds cool though

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My favorite is still Torpenhow hill in Wales. Translated: hill hill hill hill.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That one takes the cake! How does that happen? Is there welsh, saxon and latin in there or something?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago
  • Tor, from Old English torr, meaning hill.
  • Pen, from Celtic *penn, meaning hill.
  • How, from Danish hoh, meaning hill.
  • Hill, from English hill, meaning hill.

^Unfortunately,^ ^it's^ ^not^ ^actually^ ^a^ ^real^ ^official^ ^name^ ^for^ ^a^ ^hill,^ ^though^ ^it^ ^could^ ^be...^

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

It's actually in England, although funnily enough the part of England it's in is called Cumbria, which has the same origin as the Welsh for Wales "Cymru". So it's sort of in Wales, just not the Wales that we call Wales in English.

Anyway it's Old English torr, Middle Welsh penn, and Danish hoh. And like many British place names the pronunciation is not what you would expect at all at first glance. It's "tra-pen-uh"