Surnames, Place Names, Graffiti

Enjoy with us some other oddments or notables (barely) here. We are told that figuring out anomalies is good for intelligence. There is creativity in just noting and figuring out anything, making silly connections. Go.

1.  Surnames, Place Names.

My own birth name meant "cormorant" - an ugly bird if there ever was one - but useful - so these other country and language matters are not poking fun at, just enjoying.

Car ad for Buttburner Company, Switzerland

 Store chain, Fuchs, Murten, Switzerland

The f word with its alternate spellings constitute venerable surnames and town names. See ://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t201682-austrian-town-name-warning-dorty-werdz.html/. But no fair looking them up first, and then going.  It has to be spontaneous.

Translating and its pitfalls; a normal part of a lexicon one place turns into fun in another.

The affinity of the German language for joke-translations of its f-word  into the notorious Anglo-Saxon four letter word was a product of  WWII, 1945 and on, said one site we found. The homecoming soldiers spoke at home of words and places, and they and the folks back home picked up from the sounds the two way streets suggestions.  Is that so? 

Then why not earlier, at WWI?  Did nobody talk?

Windpassing, Austria

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Find a site of unusual place names, including this Windpassing, at ://infao5501.ag5.mpi-sb.mpg.de:8080/topx/archive?link=Wikipedia-Lip6-2/772930.xml&style/.

 Frankensteiner Strasse, Frankfurt, Germany

The danger of this one, Le Sars, we hope, has passed.

France.  Le Sars. 5 km

2.  Graffiti

This near Wittenburg Castle.

 How high the moon? Germany

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For a history of classical and other mooning, peruse Vetting Roots, Michelangelo and History of Mooning