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ichkeria | 14:24 Thu 02nd Jun 2022 | News
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61671913

This'll send New Judge into meltdown :-)
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Aaaaaargh! :-)
14:28 Thu 02nd Jun 2022
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The Russian word for a railway station is a rendering of the London suburb (as was then) of Vauxhall

https://londonist.com/2015/10/vokzal

It isn't quite the case, as we originally were told, that a Russian visitor to London mistook the name OF the station for the word FOR a station.
Sadly.
My favourite "name on its own language" has to be the mildly suggestive Magyarország: I think Mr Orban should make a similar declaration.
I do like "Turkiye" as a matter of fact.
The name change will be fine, it is not a lot different from the old one.
ichkeria, the people building the Moscow metro came to London to see how it was done. The Gants Hill station was built after the war and designed to look like a Moscow station (an austerity version without the chandeliers)

https://thebeautyoftransport.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/12187475436_8e1509c1d2_k.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gants_Hill_tube_station
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So in the case of Gants Hill the opposite in fact. These stations are wonders of design.
How ironic that the Soviet metro in Ukraine, much of which was also envisaged as a series of bomb shelters, is now protecting people, especially in Kharkiv, against the neo-Soviets.
very deep in Kyiv, isn't it? Has to be to get under the river, as I heard it. People hid in the tube stations during the Blitz but it didn't always protect them, lots died at Balham when a bomb opened a crater and a bus fell through on them.
Turkey is a bootiful name.
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"very deep in Kyiv, isn't it? "

It's deep everywhere in the old Soviet Union. Arsenal station in Kyiv is the deepest in the world, although the entrance is on a hill, which helps. Then a couple of stops or so later you are crossing the Dnipro on a bridge!
Kreshchatyk (where U2 played the other week) has the longest escalator in the world. It's actually a double escalator: I'm not sure if the measurement includes both bits. I could bore for Britain on this, so stop me now :-)
I have no problem pronouncing it ;o)
egypt as misr?
too many puns on misery ( civil service is - misery not mystery)

auncient Coptos ( now Qift - never mind) a leedol village gave its name to the whole country ( miosis or metonymy) - Egypt

Damascus - as Dim -shack - lots of people think it now is....

this thread is quite educational, so it will obviously go soon
Come on now, it's just 'Turkey' in a Brummie accent.
Turkey can call itself whatever it wants, and we can call it something else if we like.

For example I think the French call England Angleterre, which is fine.

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