Placenames not to conjure with

[martin]

Houghton Regis
Stopsley
Letchworth

 

[hmg]

I've always wondered, is Billericay an Irish colony in Essex?

Drax
Corby
Haggerston

 

[IdleRich]

I'm not a flaming thicky

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Scunthorpe
Skegness

 

[Corpsey]

Why are these names not to conjure with?

Is it anything to do with the names or is it just we know that e.g. Skegness is supposed to be a bit shit?

 

[Corpsey]

Scunthorpe obviously evokes 'scum'

 

[luka]

Its cos of the way it sounds

 

[Corpsey]

Doesn't 'London' sound dull though?

lun-dun

I guess it fits with the Dickensian foggy vision of it

 

[Corpsey]

Like 'Swindon' doesn't sound any worse than 'London' as a word, we just think of Swindon as this godforsaken provincial outpost

 

[Corpsey]

It would be interesting to run some of these English placenames by a foreigner and see which strike them as being prosaic and which glamorous

 

[IdleRich]

Like 'Swindon' doesn't sound any worse than 'London' as a word, we just think of Swindon as this godforsaken provincial outpost

My birthplace

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Why are these names not to conjure with?

A dead weight, no spark.

 

[Corpsey]

What would you add to Skegness to give it spark?

 

[Corpsey]

This is going to turn into the monosyllable thread at this rate

squelch
felch
brick
sick

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Delaware
Pittsburgh

 

[IdleRich]

Bognor Regis