This came about from an earlier tweet about Douglas Adams and a discussion which meandered towards one of his books, written with John Lloyd and called "The Meaning of Liff".... A friend of mine had a copy, and the image to the right brought it all back to me when I took a look...The book is available in full online...
It provides a range of terms which are connected up to place-names, to give a new 'meaning' to both...
I had a Twitter exchange with a few folks a few weeks ago, where we tried to come up with some new additions, and I thought that this might make a good context for writing about places: to create a new set of places linked to quirky things...
Needs a bit more work maybe...
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