Village Names Add Color to English Life

Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2003-05-09 16:59
Colorful village names such as "Pity Me," "No Place" and "Great Cockup," grace the English countryside. Take a stroll through English linguistics in this article. The United Kingdom is not lacking in interesting place names. One village in the North is called "Pity Me," while "Once Brewed" and "Twice Brewed" are neighbors in Northumbria. Find out the long and the short of it in an article by Gideon Long.