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Any Strange Name?
Did you ever went to a country or state or met or found strange, weird names? For instance, places, road, signboard, food, people, area, building, etcetera.
Can you name it?
Here my the very interesting references:
In my state, I have places with weird name such as:
Lumut (moss)
Parit (a drain)
Tanjung Rambutan (Cape Nephelium Lappaceum)
plus others
Is there any English word for rambutan?
15 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
There's a small town near Kuching/Sarawak called 'Bau'
It's one of only a few places on Earth where the world's largest (And smelliest) flower the 'Rafflesia' can be found.
- 1 decade ago
Selekoh (corner), Dinding(wall), Pusing (turn/spin) in the state of Perak.
i've heard of place called Langgar. isnt that funny.
oh ya, in melaka if im not mistaken theres a place called Kandang Kerbau.
- HRH ShimLv 51 decade ago
Strange but cute: Kampung Chengkenit in Pahang.
Strange but sounds porno: Batang Berjuntai.
- 1 decade ago
Try "Sexmoan" - locally pronounced - sas-mooh-ann.
It's a municipality located in the southern part of the Philippines.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
so you're from perak
i used to study there
we called parit,paris,bota was boston,tronoh was toronto
just for laughs of course :D
- 1 decade ago
in malaysia, you can meet everything... near my village, theres a village called kalamatoi. its mean tikus mati based on the mother tongue of the villagers there..
my village also have a weird name, New Found Village.. cool huh!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
i was doing some filing today in the office and saw this address of one of our clients.
"the love shack"
it's a REAL address..