> > Even though those particular stories might not be true, I'd bet that there are some places in this great big world that got their names in that way. Who knows?
> >

Sure, we can name a place that got its name that way. How about 'Canada'? Oh, that's a good one... The name comes from the Huron/Iroquois word 'kanata', which means: "a village of huts". That's right folks. Canada is 10 million square km of prime hut-building real estate...


> Ah ha ha. Can't resist quoting at length from Terry Pratchett, who has the definitive word on this phenomenon. This is from "The Light Fantastic", abbreviated a bit:
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> "The reason for this is regrettably all too common. When the first explorers travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice, and writing down whatever the bemused man told them.
"Thus were immortalised such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don't Know, What?, and of course, Your Finger You Fool.
"Rainclouds clustered around the heights of Mount Oolskunrahod ("Who Is This Fool Who Does Not Know What A Mountain Is") as the..."


Is that so? Well ok, *everyone* knows that the country called "New Zealand" has its English name originating from a particularly flamboyant mispelling of "New SEALAND Aqua Fun-Park".

Wolf "ducks and runs behind Pizza the Hutt" spirit