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- Azimuth1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+52Now all we need is:
"World's MOST AVERAGE LENGTH place name! [pic]" - bouche, on 10/10/2007, -0/+35great news! This should have been labelled as BREAKING!
- SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -2/+34"The place is sometimes referred to as Å i Lofoten ("i" means "in") to distinguish it from other places named Å"
Therefore, there are other single-character place names, which makes this innacurate. - OUPablo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28is that sign telling me to pause?
- ChuckIT, on 10/10/2007, -6/+27srsly who started this whole, "HEY look at what this place is named" trend? a 12 year old who just left geography class?
- edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23Speaking of 12 year olds, please don't cut vowels from your words. How hard is it to type the word "seriously?"
- bbrigg1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17or...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%2C_Alaska - MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19I guess its that time of the month for you.
- boredsam, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Digg: Home of the "Who gives a *****?" channel.
- joeyjojo402, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13OK enough of these shortest/longest places. I think we are all nerdy enough to do any further Wikipedia research on our own.
- matt646, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_short_place_names
- Saulidus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12oh the irony
- mmockett, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11'Pronounced like the word "why"'
Thanks - litkaj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9A bit longer but a lot funnier...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*****%2C_Austria - r2700, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7What about No Name, Colorado? http://www.rockymountainroads.com/colorado050/i-070_eb_exit_119_09.jpg
- DephexTwin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Nobody's stopping you.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Ah yes, the one major pitfall of sans serif typefaces.
- FadieZ, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Why does that road sign have a lowercase "L" and an uppercase "i"?
- stormgren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6It's II (eye, eye). On the sign they're both uppercase.
- Tias, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Åååååå, you stand corrected. Of course there are keyboards with Å!
ÅÅÅ åååå ååå det går likar no! - Hedgecore, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9These are just getting stupid. I've got a place name. "Away". Go there.
- krakdaddy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I do like the "often stolen" road sign... kinda makes me want to go there just to jump on that bandwagon.
- Sapulator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Norway's Awesome
- plaing, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5http://digg.com/offbeat_news/world_s_FUNNIEST_place_name
lol? - maisteri, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8Twice as long, but still interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ii%2C_Finland - bhowell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"" are quotation marks, not parentheses
() are parentheses - cesig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4If they have to qualify it to distinguish it from other places named "Å", then don't both places have the same name?
Find a single-character place name that ISN'T "Å" and then you can call this inaccurate. - aedes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5yeah, well my place has a negative amount of letters in its name. If you come over and visit, you have to pay me in letters. preferably written on cardboard.
- 4joe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Best part in the first line - For the sex toy, see dildo.
Just in case you ended up here on accident. - greenlight2001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You sir... are completely right, and I'm an ass. I DO know the difference, but apparently not when I was typing. My bad. :)
- aceman118, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3See also
* Y, a town in France - CeeJayDK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3There is another ...
Å has to share it's status as the shortest name with Ø - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98%2C_Denmark - Conseal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hey! Hey!! It's "Å" man.. It's "Å". Show some respect.
- bIuebonics, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i'm a fan of Intercourse, Pennsylvania... fits right along with *****, Austria
- FadieZ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2oic. Thought the place was called Li.
- bIuebonics, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2see the "no name, colorado" post above...
- alexkorova, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2For you non scandinavian speakers out there, the awe in awesome is pronunced very similair to the A with the ring above it.
- SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You can see a couple of such places in the comments below. So yes, in any way you could bend it, this is not "the" shortest place name; it is "one of the shortest place names".
- KiSA, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2okay, so what else are we going to see?
towns with names with numbers and other odd characters in it? Or how about a town that doesn't have a name? - MatthewBlack, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5What is the point of this sort of comment? Are you trying to make the submitter feel bad, or are you trying to make yourself look like an immature idiot? It's cretins like you that give the Internet a bad name.
- CeeJayDK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah .. ***** Kenya
- Salviati, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2For those who are scientifically inclined, Å is also known as Angstrom and it is equal to 1/100000000 of a centimeter. Very small indeed!
- SpaceDreamer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%2C_Somme
- TechCF, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, we propably need to build a new stone-soupercomputer to calculate it out of all the names registered in Google Maps base
- bIuebonics, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1cue cheesy math joke in 3, 2, 1....
- ffleming, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's called trolling. Your comment means that he won.
- litkaj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I actually live about 30 minutes from Intercourse, PA.
- DephexTwin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Actually, it's not that strange... it's actually the English language /r/ sound that is strange. Particularly at the end of syllables, our /r/ is more of a coloring of the preceding vowel rather than a consonant in the sense of the other consonants. (Compare to e.g. Spanish/Arabic/Japanese /r/ which is a trill or a flap of the tongue tip.) So, what this means is, the way that the /o/ sound is affected by the /r/-coloring is close to what å sounds like.
- NinjaNato, on 09/19/2008, -0/+1http://digg.com/odd_stuff/The_World_s_Longest_Plac ...
- bjarkebech, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Å means lake
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