“Cockburn” is in South Australia, not Western Australia. And it is pronounced “Coburn” just as the surname Trebilcock is pronounced Trebilcoe.
January 26, 2009 at 5:28 am
(2) Iain Frew says:
Ancient names may sound funny today but they are sometimes the only way to rediscover something about now dead languages. Town names and even better river names survive when all else seems lost. The language of the Picts seems to have been a Celtic tongue a little different from Gaelic as judged by the structure of river names in northern Scotland.
January 26, 2009 at 9:12 am
(3) Tim Carter says:
In the US there are many names that are funny, peculiar, and those that some deem offensive and thus have been banished from the map. Unlike the UK, most in the US have little understanding of language. One of my favorites–Toad Suck, AR.
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“Cockburn” is in South Australia, not Western Australia. And it is pronounced “Coburn” just as the surname Trebilcock is pronounced Trebilcoe.
Ancient names may sound funny today but they are sometimes the only way to rediscover something about now dead languages. Town names and even better river names survive when all else seems lost. The language of the Picts seems to have been a Celtic tongue a little different from Gaelic as judged by the structure of river names in northern Scotland.
In the US there are many names that are funny, peculiar, and those that some deem offensive and thus have been banished from the map. Unlike the UK, most in the US have little understanding of language. One of my favorites–Toad Suck, AR.