Wednesday 25 January 2017

Place names that shouldn't be funny - but are.

Talking with an American colleague this afternoon, he mentioned driving past a place where they couldn't believe the sign.

Westward Ho!

It's a town in north Devon, on the coast, and the name is all about direction and interjection. Apparently the place was entirely more mundane than the obvious translation of the sign would suggest.

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