Bad naming…
Bad naming conventions don’t always have to come from the lack of creativity of explorers. They sometimes come from just plain lack of linguistic skill. And when we say sometimes, we mean offten. Take, for example, a lake in North Carolina called Lochmere Lake. Which sounds like a cool name for a lake, until you get a bit deeper into it. You see, Loch means ‘lake’ in Scotish. Mere means… „lake” in Old English. So we end up with a lake called Lakelake Lake.
But there’s more.
There’s a hill in England where history had it’s way with names. The hill is in Wales, so the welsh called it Pen, which means hill (which proves that lack of creativity in naming places was a feature explorers had for ages). Then the English came and needed a name for the hill. They asked the local Welsh and were told that it’s Pen. And since this was a hill, they called it Tor Pen, tor meaning hill in Old-English. Some time later, as we know, the Vikings came in and refused to go back. They as well needed a name for the place. So they aske the locals and found out they are looking at Torpen. And, since it was a hill, they added Hougr, which means hill in Danish. After that the moder English added their own „hill” at the end, and we ended up with a place called Torpenhow Hill. Which is, as we saw, Hillhillhill Hill.
Hillhillhill Hill.
And yes. We know that the more recent studies debunked the whole Hillhillhill Hill theory up to a point of stating that it’s not even a real place. However, we chose to ignore those findings, as when faced with a choice whether we want to live in a world where Hillhillhill Hill exists or one where it doesn’t, we choose the first option.
Enjoy!
And since it doesn’t exist, we took the liberty to find some pretty hills and a pretty lake to take the pictures accompanying the post. And we found a lake surrounded by the hills. One large enough that you can sail on it. Solina Lake, Bieszczady Mountains, Poland. Enjoy.
