DATA, MAPS and GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COMPILED, and ANAGRAMS COMPOSED: by Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2017.
Since 2016, Giorgio Coniglio, site editor-in-chief and a registered pseudonym, has been bundling HUMOUR, PARODY, WORDPLAY, SONG-LYRICS, PHOTOGRAPHY and POETRY, with the sole aim of entertaining YOU with presentations at the rate of 4x per month. A related blog, "DAILY ILLUSTRATED NONSENSE", sends out items from these collections one-at-a-time. "SILLY SONGS AND SATIRE", features ukulele chords for songs whose lyrics are displayed here.
Monday 12 June 2017
PLACENAMES in WESTERN CANADA: REAL and FUNKY, versus Imaginary
WORDPLAY post #58
CARTOGRAPHY involving Canadian cities, towns and hamlets - real places where Canadians live. The real names were selected from thousands of such geographic identifiers because of their funkiness, i.e. amusing nature, based on implied or speculative meaning of the shorter English (and French words) comprising the geographic identifiers. The aim was to provide a set of REAL placenames, to which Scramble-Town Maps (imaginary placename sets based on anagrams), concocted by the author, could be compared. The current post is a continuation of ideas from posts #53 (Funky Inspiration for Word-Buffs), #38 (Surprisingly High Approval Rate for REPUBLICANS), and #56 (Placenames in Atlantic Canada)
DATA, MAPS and GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COMPILED, and ANAGRAMS COMPOSED: by Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2017.
DATA, MAPS and GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COMPILED, and ANAGRAMS COMPOSED: by Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2017.
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"Nice Slurp, Alberta" is definitely going to be a stop on my next tour.
ReplyDeleteGreat! But be sure to avoid the unpleasant nearby village of Cruel Nips AB.
ReplyDeleteNice! Though I'm surprised the republicans haven't yet privatized "Public Ear NS".
ReplyDeleteThey have legislation in the works, I'm afraid. TY for your interest, Andrew!
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