Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow!
 

Six more weeks of winter! Choke on it global warming alarmists, even the ground hog thinks your wrong! :D:har:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/weath...cid=spartanntp

at least Easter is early this year on April 1st (April fools day) :o

Is that place really called Gobbler's Knob? :haha::haha::haha::haha:

Rodent control needed.

Pa Place Names
 

Hey Eich,

Yup. My Dad was from Western Pa and they do have some interesting place names there. Some of them go back 300 years or more. One I can recall right away is Bushy Run. Ring any bells?:D
Find yourself a good map of the state and be prepared for some entertainment.

We've compared notes on language and colloquialisms for a long while, mate... so you probably guessed that over here both those words are fully loaded :haha:

Pa Placenames
 

Seriously Mate, you can't make up this stuff. My Dad's younger brother lived in Uniontown for many years. There is a small town NE of there called LeMont Furnace. The only reasonable explanation that I can come up with for that name is that is somebody must have been running a blacksmith's shop at some time or another.
Run your finger on the map about 50 miles down the Monongahela River (colloquially called the Mighty Mon) from Pittsburgh and you will find my Dad's hometown, California, Pa. It was called that after the California Goldrush.

I have visited the Mighty Mon (1982)

My favotrite is Intercourse PA :doh: in the heart of Amish country; changed in 1814 from Cross Keys. Been there a few times both as a trucker and tourist enroute to Gettysburg. Not hitting horse-drawn buggies at night in a big-rig is an art formhttp://amishbuggy.tripod.com/pictures/AMISH2.jpeg in Amish country!:k_confused: http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-conten...rcoursepa1.jpg

Pa Placenames
 

Don't forget Bird in Hand!:haha:

Place names
 

Overlooking the Columbia River in the Pacific NW is a rock formation standing tall named, Rooster Rock. I've seen it many times.

Before it was called Rooster Rock it was referred to as Cock Rock by the early explorers and residents of the area.

I'm a little surprised that the Grand Tetons in Wyoming haven't had their names changed.... ha!

'Gobbler's Knob', yup, just as in the film. I try to watch 'Groundhog Day' every Feb 2nd, or close to it.

:har: My daughter once stated that she hated the word 'tits' which is, of course, insulting to proper ladies. And I said "that's cool but you've got an entire Mtn range and federal park to get past on that issue."The naming of the mountains is attributed to early 19th-century French-speaking trappers—les trois tétons (the three teats) was later anglicized and shortened to Tetons :|\\ A lady classmate of mine actually works for the U.S. Geologic Survey and I mentioned that the problem was a little glaring and not PC-in need of a name change . So far no corrective action. The problem is widespread:

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A less humorous aspect of mammary toponymy is the denigration of Native American women by feature names like Squaw Tit, in its singular or plural form. Derogatory intent seems a bit obvious insofar as squaw is far more commonly paired with the mildly obscene tit than with the more numerous and clinically correct nipple. My canvass of GNIS found only two of the latter: Squaw Nipple (in Montana) and Squaw Nipple Peak (a variant for Squaw Dome, in California). By contrast, squaw is part of 19 of the country’s 28 tit-based names (fig. 4.1), and accounts for roughly equal portions of the 19 official names and 9 variants. What’s more, unlike the nipple appellations that affectionately commemorate white women named Elsie or Molly, none of the tit toponyms mentions anyone, white or Indian, by name. And of the six features with squaw variants, four still have squaw in their official name. Apparently tit was more offensive than squaw to whoever sanitized the official names of Arizona’s Squaw Butte (formerly Squaw Tit), Nevada’s Squaw Mountain and Squawtip (both formerly Squaw Tit), and Texas’s Squawteat Peak (formerly Squawtit Peak). By contrast, geometry edged out racism when features formerly known as Squaw Tit became Thimble Mountain in California and Pushtay (a Sahaptin Indian word for “small mound”) in Washington State. These subtle substitutes suggest a solution for state officials troubled by toponyms pointedly offensive to feminists and Native Americans

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/534650.html

So now you're taking the word of rodent? Typical... :D









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