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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:

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Update:

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?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite 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.

  • 1 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.

  • 1 decade ago

    Woop Woop, in Australia.

  • Anonymous
    1 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!

  • Anonymous
    1 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..

  • 1 decade ago

    kedai lalat?

    which in english means fly shop/something

  • nope sry but banana, funny place l0l

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