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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

In my country we name places after the surrounding area/environment. If it's an area with a big hill it will probably have a name to reflect that.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I love visiting other areas "Old Barn Rd", and "Swamp Rd"

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    These days you can't even tell the name comes from the area. They use old words to describe it. An area with a hill could be called a "Something-bjer". Bjer means hill and is close to the modern word Berg but if you don't know about it then you don't think about it.

    Sure, we could have old barn road. But I am not talking about roads. More like City names, local village names, local area names and such.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Gotcha.
    That's interesting, I've never heard of bjer before

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Unless you are from Sweden it's not that surprising you never heard about "bjer" haha. I only learned about it pretty recently and I am born and raised here 😅 The majority of people probably never think about why places are named the way they are

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