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funny place names in the garden state

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I lived in New Jersey for a couple of years. Aside from being a strange place in general, the state is filled with strangely named places. Recently transplanted to California, where I've yet to come across any Hohokus.

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  • ruzuzu *favorited* Jan 19, 2011

  • dontcry What couch? Is John in therapy? He probably has latent wordie issues. I hope this kad can help him -- although, she seems confused about who she really is... Dec 7, 2009

  • reesetee Oh, I'm hoi polloi too, dontcry; no doubt about it. I'm just saying that kad...well, if she can ask John a question when he comes back to the couch (see below), you'd think she'd get a bit of preference. ;-) Dec 4, 2009

  • dontcry Wow... Kinda rough around the edges quaint-looking until you get to picture "04." Then it looks like a dump... Dec 3, 2009

  • mollusque Here's a profile of Bivalve.

    Are you the same person as Kat? Dec 3, 2009

  • dontcry Haaaaay... Who you callin' hoi polloi? I'm takin' sum umbrage to that my friend! Dec 2, 2009

  • reesetee Yay! Hi kad! Geez, you'd think you'd have been given preference over the hoi polloi.... :-) Dec 2, 2009

  • uselessness Another familiar face! Dec 2, 2009

  • chained_bear Hi kad/kitinka! I'm glad I know you're the same person. :) Dec 2, 2009

  • dontcry Is there a pod in your backyard? ;-) Dec 2, 2009

  • kad I am kad, I've just been reborn as kitinka here on Wordnik. When John comes back to the couch I'll ask him why kitinka won out over kad in the Wordie-Wordnik shuffle.

    Mollusque, there's a Bivalve, NJ? Dec 2, 2009

  • reesetee Kitinka, kad had a similar list, but she doesn't have a public profile, so I can't seem to track it down. Dec 2, 2009

  • mollusque What about Bivalve? Dec 2, 2009

  • aphonik I've always been amused by Egg Harbor. And I second Cheesequake. I lived for a number of years just off exit 17 of the GSP and I still giggle whenever I drive by the Cheesequake Rest Area. Dec 2, 2009

  • jennanderson ho-ho-kus Dec 2, 2009

  • asativum Jenny Jump State Forest! Jun 28, 2008

  • reesetee *thwacks forehead* Of course! How could we forget? Oct 13, 2007

  • chained_bear Drumthwacket! Oct 13, 2007

  • reesetee Oh! Piscataway! Sep 18, 2007

  • reesetee I'm not even going to ask why the Scranton McDonald's was so memorable. ;-) Sep 18, 2007

  • trivet I remember the hilarity of driving through Pennsylvania and trying to pronounce the various towns we drove through. That and the Scranton McDonald's. Sep 17, 2007

  • reesetee And now mine is too. At least you're not trying to pronounce Schuylkill. ;-) Sep 17, 2007

  • kad Absolutely. I'm originally from Pittsburgh, not far from the Youghiogheny River. Unless I've been mispronouncing it my whole life, the first 'gh' is pronounced like a 'k': Yawk-i-gain-ee.

    Off the top of my head, I can't think of another word with a gh that gets pronounced as a k...which means that the rest of my work day is shot as I try. Sep 17, 2007

  • reesetee No, but close--I'm in PA, which has its share of strange town names. :-) And I won't even mention any bridges. Sep 17, 2007

  • kad Thanks reesetee! Are you in the Garden State, too? Sep 17, 2007

  • reesetee Succasunna! Weehawken! Hopatcong! Sep 17, 2007