those funny Brits

[kittenscribble]

While we were driving down some highway in North Yorkshire, I kept making fun of the signs. "Hey look," I'd say, "that exit goes to some town named Glasshouses. I guess they don't throw stones." Another favorite: Blubberhouses.

Apparently I missed some even more hilarious place names in England. As for Penistone, a thriving South Yorkshire town, just stop that sophomoric snickering. "It's pronounced 'PENNIS-tun,'" Fiona Moran, manager of the Old Vicarage Hotel in Penistone, said over the telephone, rather sharply.

Thanks to Scalzi for the Friday morning giggles.

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[bkleber.livejournal.com]

I don't remember who it is - it might have been an entertaining aside in one of Neal Stephenson's "Quicksilver" books - that a certain british monarch awarded the lordship of Penistone to someone he didn't like, out of the juvenile pleasure he derived from forging a somewhat uptight man to say the word "penis" in public all the time.