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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2021 11:17:31 GMT
Iran - large Asian country about which some people worry as though they were eating babies or something
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Post by tod2 on Jul 22, 2021 11:52:11 GMT
Wolmaransstad : is a maize-farming town situated on the N12 between Johannesburg and Kimberley in North West Province of South Africa. The town lies in an important alluvial diamond-mining area.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2021 13:36:27 GMT
Wolfersdorf - village in southern Alsace near the border of Switzerland
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Post by whatagain on Jul 22, 2021 13:54:04 GMT
Denfer Rochereau. Rer station in Paris.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2021 14:04:59 GMT
(that would be Denfert Rochereau)
Barbès-Rochechouart - a métro station in Paris which is one of the most difficult for many people to pronounce correctly, even for the non Parisian French. 6 syllables when logically there should only be 5.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 22, 2021 15:04:18 GMT
(that would be Denfer t Rochereau) Barbès-Rochechouart - a métro station in Paris which is one of the most difficult for many people to pronounce correctly, even for the non Parisian French. 6 syllables when logically there should only be 5. Is it the "e" in Rochechouart? If that's the case it makes total sense separating two "ch"s and thus rendering it pronounceable.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2021 15:18:08 GMT
Yes. Bar-bess-rosh-shuh-choo-ar (of course said more rapidly than the way you just read it)
Most French minds immediately spot the word "roche" (rock) which makes it mentally impossible to cut it into two syllables.
It is also worth noting that it is one of rare Paris metro stations honouring a woman, Marguerite de Rochechouart de Montpipeau, an abbess from the 18th century.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 22, 2021 15:56:37 GMT
De mon pipeau...
La Roche en Ardenne. In the Ardennes. Belgium.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2021 16:07:30 GMT
Laroche-Migennes - regional train hub in Burgundy
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Post by whatagain on Jul 22, 2021 17:52:09 GMT
Mig alley. Region of north Korea close to the chinese birder where US pilots expected to be met by Migs during Korean war.
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Post by bjd on Jul 22, 2021 18:03:58 GMT
Galveston Town on the south coast of Texas
Afaik, most Parisians just say Barbès
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 23, 2021 2:46:38 GMT
Galway - touristy town in western Ireland
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Post by tod2 on Jul 23, 2021 12:47:05 GMT
Fourways : Long before the district came to be called Fourways, it was a 245-hectare (605-acre) residence and game farm owned by the Eriksen family. The residence they built here in the early 1940s was named Norscot Manor, (after their nationalities 'Nor'wegian and 'Scot'tish).
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Post by whatagain on Jul 23, 2021 13:23:04 GMT
Bourg la reine. Some place in France. Can be translated unto shag the queen, so everybody remembers that place.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 23, 2021 14:45:26 GMT
You're getting worse than Pivot. La Rochelle - charming port on the French Atlantic coast
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Post by mossie on Jul 23, 2021 18:29:12 GMT
Hellespont - connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmora in Turkey, today called the Dardanelles
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Post by casimira on Jul 23, 2021 18:57:48 GMT
Hellespont - connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmora in Turkey, today called the Dardanelles One of my fondest memories is swimming in those waters while in Turkey in 2000 Pontchatoula- city in Louisiana
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 23, 2021 19:55:05 GMT
Pontchartrain -- a large lake (actually a "brackish estuary" according to Wikipedia) connected to the Gulf of Mexico via the Rigolets strait, it is located directly north of New Orleans
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 23, 2021 20:57:38 GMT
Chartres - city with a beautiful cathedral on the plain of the Beauce, sometimes described as being "impossible to photograph" because of its flatness, which actually makes the cathedral seen in the distance all the more impressive, floating above the wheat fields.
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Post by lugg on Jul 23, 2021 23:18:36 GMT
Bartestree a place I love... as it is my home. The name Bartestree originates from ‘Beorhtweald’s Tree.’ My children and I used to imagine what tree that might have been as we walked around the village.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 23, 2021 23:31:02 GMT
Trento. Italian city in the Alps, not that far from.Austria.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 24, 2021 10:38:58 GMT
Umzinto is a town, located in the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is a sugarcane growing area and the town was set up as the centre for a sugar mill. The first public company in Natal was established at Umzinto on the 6th of July, 1846.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 24, 2021 11:26:25 GMT
Cool.
Azincourt. English victory over an arrogant french army. 1351 ? Apparently unpronouceable by our friends on their island to the point some write it Agincourt.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 24, 2021 13:08:30 GMT
But it's what caused Jeanne d'Arc to come and save the country.
Courmayeur - town at the Italian end of the Mont Blanc tunnel in the Aosta Valley
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Post by whatagain on Jul 24, 2021 14:34:45 GMT
Tourtour. Splendid village in south east France.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2021 15:11:57 GMT
Tours -- largest city in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France (Wikipedia)
I only know the name from this random bit of poetry/history retained from school:
Charles Martel defeated the Moors at the battle of Tours in 732
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 24, 2021 16:05:43 GMT
Douro - the largest river of Iberia which flows from central Spain to its mouth in Porto, Portugal
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Post by whatagain on Jul 24, 2021 16:39:45 GMT
Dour. Where my wife went to primary school.now hosting a large festival.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2021 16:47:01 GMT
Lourdes -- town in France in the foothills of the Pyrenees
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Post by casimira on Jul 24, 2021 18:42:26 GMT
Louisiana- US state where "I'm at"
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