Lost in translation (was: How do Dredgers work?)

Makara · Post by **Makara** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:08 am

Which brings us neatly to contender for most stolen roadsign in Britain...

Replacing this probably explains Kent's high council tax

Edit: Well - it worked this morning

Post by **Kaks** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:58 pm

Makara, apparently I'm not authorised to see that picture. While not being feline, curiosity is indeed killing me!

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:42 pm

It's working for me now - and was indeed worth the wait!

Edit: I've rehosted it - just in case:

Post by **Disembodied** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:55 am

There's a village near Kinross called "Crook of Devon". Legend has it that on the village sign, someone wrote "Twinned with Thief of Baghdad" underneath.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:49 am

this is a clip from a mail my mate sent me when we were discussing a similar theme of place names, tickled me like :-

"My mate, Rick, does a presentation with videos he edited, for unis etc on a variety of historical bits and pieces. One of them is placenames and how they change. there was a place called Dun, meaning hill, in the middle ages. It was abandoned and then rebuilt by people who didn't know the origin of the name, so being on a hill, for which they used the word Mow, they called it Dunmow. Same thing happened again, only this time they didn't know either original name's meanings, but being on a hill and being pretentious nurks, they called it Dunmow-on-the-hill. Imagine how ecstatic they were to find out that they lived in Hill-hill-on-the-hill."

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:19 am

Sounds similar to the disputed Torpenhow Hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpenhow_Hill) made famous on QI.

A similar affect is seen in British River names since Tyne, Tees, Ouse, Esk are all old local dialect names for a river so we have

River Tees = River River, River Tyne = River River, etc...

And now it would seem, this off-topic, is now off-topic!

Captain Berf · Post by **Captain Berf** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:35 am

Post by **Kaks** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 1:46 pm

Good point, I should have anonymised those 'berliners'...

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:09 pm

Kaks wrote:
Good point, I should have anonymised those 'berliners'...

Somehow they look a bit like a mutated trumble...

Screet

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:28 pm

Captain Berf wrote:

I thought it was an anti-Mickey Mouse campaign!