06-19-09, 05:35 PM
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Admiral 
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Court ruling confirms Dorset village’s name ‘is pronounced scrotum’
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/04/1...otum%E2%80%99/
hahahaha fantastic!
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After months of wrangling between life-long villagers and affluent newcomers, a High Court judge has ruled that the name of the tiny Dorset village of Schroatham should correctly be pronounced ’scrotum’.
/SNIP
Finally, after considerable research, the judge’s decision was swayed by evidence uncovered by historians showing that the town was named in the 10th Century, after the Anglo-Saxon word Shkoot’m, meaning ‘ball-bag’
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 spoof news is great.
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