Austrian Fucking
Can you believe that there is a small Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf. It is situated 21 miles north of Salzburgh if you are thinking of looking it up.
I suppose it translates as something completely different to our version of the name. Lol In fact it probably is pronounced differently too.
Tourists are making life for the citizens there a misery by posing in suggestive ways by the sign which has prompted evasive action. Even resorting to pinching the signs on a regular basis. They have now installed CCTV cameras to monitor the lude and rude behaviour.
Despite the obvious problems the villagers voted to stick with the town’s name back in 2004 despite having to constantly replace road signs and look the other way.
Do you have any strange town or village names near to you?
Our Word Fuck comes from the Anglo Saxon, and thus German word Fichen. Since Austria speaks German it would seem strange they would not decide to change the name, but then again there’s nowt as queer as folk as they say somewhere in Yorkshire once probably.
As an aside most of our swear word come from Saxon times so it always seems odd when someone say “pardon my French” when they have uttered one.
As an aside, when the Normans took control of England they chose not to name their nobilty Counts, as they did in France, as it was too similar to the Saxon word for vagina, cunt, a word often used in naming of roads to indicate the occupation of the residents in the middle ages, Gropecunt Lane was typical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane).
Lorribot, thanks for that you are a mine of information. 🙂