Under Construction I've heard this for years but just came across this article to suggest possibly not. Or maybe the placename got shortened but but the surname?
However, many others are very annoying 😂 Marjoribanks, Magdalene, Loughborough, etc.
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Black's Guide to Kent has a few fanciful attempts at the derivation of the FOLKESTONE placename;
'the people's rock' (folkestang), 'the rock of the small folk' (or fairies) and 'a flaw in the rock' (flos stane).

>United Statian 're' placename
Commonwealth bros...

We hear endlessly about this carbon audit, or that species count - but when are we going to hear about the placename mapping, or survey of former habitation sites?

We continue our 'Feature Placename' series this week with a simple but graceful placename, 'Siúl na gCaorach'. Names relating to agriculture are naturally a common placename type in the local vernacular and feature heavily in our Townland Survey research so far. #logainmneacha

Alex Laura Sorry - placename lookup fell over and didn’t automatically restart as it should! Should be fixed now.

Canary Shoal Collective Looks like you are deadnaming Artyomovsk.

Why do use the colonialist placename, not the indigenous one?

So problematic.

The placename has been translated as meaning “hollow of the cairns” - suggesting it was also a burial site. Certainly, the wider landscape here is peppered with prehistoric sites such as the Caves of Kilhern chambered cairn (shown here), a few miles to the SE.

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Sapp Erlot MatakatiaMike The New Zealand Rocketeer I think in the cases where the placename is currently in te reo, the name should be in caps and the translation in lowercase.

Daniel Korski INRIX ® 'Let’s get [insert placename] moving' - always the rallying cry of somebody clinging to an outdated system in the hope that it somehow counteracts common sense.

Martyn Bradbury It's nudge politics, intentionally promoting undemocratic co-governance - and a waste of $. There would be some sense in adding Maori place names where both are known/used (there are already many Maori-only placename signs), but no point otherwise. Some signs are confusing.

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The placename is clearly a Kannada name, the tree's name in Malayalam is kāññiram, in Tamil kāñciram, no other cognates elsewhere.

Anyway, this tree is quite famous for its poison being the poison used in Agatha Christie's first Poirot novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

We continue our 'Feature Placename’ series with an unusual placename, 'An Bansa', which is an alternative name for the smallest townland in our parish called 'Glebe'. It translates as ‘The Manse' which is an old name for a dwelling for a Church of Ireland clergyman #logainmneacha

Ms Parsnip *raises an eyebrow*

'Oh, are you from York?'
'No, <placename>'
'Really? You don't get many insolent racist idiots from <placename>'

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Yonatan יונתן يوناتان The etymology of Jenin is from the original name of the Canaanite town: Gina
Nearly every placename in Palestine has Canaanite roots, not Hebrew

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 This placename warranted a full lecture in my Uni class on English spelling and how you can never trust it.

Check out this Arapaho placename for a Spot near Windy Gap, CO

hísei tihnóxouso’néít bes

‘Where A Woman Was Killed By a Log’

Sally Lewis Is it alphanumerical? Placename based, personal name based? It's probably lurking in the recesses of your mind, waiting for the right trigger. Big hugs. X

• “Sialia” is the scientific name of Bluebird.
• “Beaumont” is a French placename for any of various places in France, with roots that inherited from Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, from beau (“beautiful”) + mont (“mountain”), that means “beautiful hill/mountain”.

ಹಂಸಾನಂದಿ Hamsanandi हंसानन्दि ತಲೆಕಾಯಿ ಮಣಲೂರು definitely sound same as as Kannada placename (ಮಣಲು ( ಮರಳು). Are it’s cognates similar in other languages. So it may well be in southern peninsula.