| Wikipedia has a fuller, highly amusing list of counterintuitive placename pronunciations. |
| Scotia is a Latin placename derived from Scoti, a Latin name for the Gaels. |
| This is surprising, because North Kanem has been widely used by Azza hunters and the Batha area is used by numerous Haddad: indicated notably by the placename of Ouadi Haddad. |
| In the meantime, wood was more likely to be seen as a word in an ancient placename than on the ground. |
| In a referendum held earlier today, its residents voted overwhelming to readopt its English name and save it from the imposition of the Irish placename, An Daingean. |
| The placename literally means 'the small church of Davnet' and refers to the 7th Century saint Dympna who built a small church here. |
