February 27, 2010

Changing Place Names

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/americans-redraw-the-map-to-erase-offensive-names-1913020.html

Intercourse in Pennsylvania has managed to hold on to its name, while California's Negrohead Mountain has been renamed Ballard Mountain

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Intercourse in Pennsylvania has managed to hold on to its name, while California's Negrohead Mountain has been renamed Ballard Mountain

[From article]

"Areas mapped during the gold rush were often given names that reflected the no-nonsense argot of prospectors. Generations of students have giggled at a river in California that enjoys the name Shitbritches Creek. That somewhat lavatorial name has survived, so far. As have a place called Hell in Michigan, an Intercourse in Pennsylvania, and a town called Crappo, in Maryland."


Americans redraw the map to erase 'offensive' names

California says goodbye to Negrohead mountain, but Intercourse, Pennsylvania survives – for now

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles

Independent (UK)
February 28, 2010

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