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Torpenhow Hill, in the Lake District in the north-west of England, is the only place in the world whose name has the same word four different times. That's the story, anyway. The truth is a bit more complex.
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REFERENCES:
The Debunking of Torpenhow Hill: digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4733&context=wordways
Etymology from the Oxford English Dictionary oed.com (requires an academic or pay-for login)
CNN story about Wanaka Tree: edition.cnn.com/travel/article/wanaka-tree-new-zealand-vandalism-intl-hnk/index.html
Torpenhow Hill on Google Maps, and the Street View image nearby: www.google.com/maps/place/Torpenhow+Hill/@54.7396682,-3.2522896,14z/
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REFERENCES:
The Debunking of Torpenhow Hill: digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4733&context=wordways
Etymology from the Oxford English Dictionary oed.com (requires an academic or pay-for login)
CNN story about Wanaka Tree: edition.cnn.com/travel/article/wanaka-tree-new-zealand-vandalism-intl-hnk/index.html
Torpenhow Hill on Google Maps, and the Street View image nearby: www.google.com/maps/place/Torpenhow+Hill/@54.7396682,-3.2522896,14z/
I'm at tomscott.com
on Twitter at twitter.com/tomscott
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and on Instagram as tomscottgo
I forgot about the "don't walk along a really busy and in-focus background" thing. ISnets compression's going to destroy the video quality!
@tulsatrash fair enough But was it British
I was going to say something but I forgot what it was so have some engagement.
It's still 4k
1month?
@Jacob Barley : 😮 I'll be careful about sharing this video.
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For those wondering about the "dogs will be shot" sign, that's perfectly normal in the countryside, and is quite legal. Most farmers are courteous enough to give a warning however...
imagine if aliens take over the Earth and add their word for hill to this
in Scandinavian languages torp means a small house or homestead. the name could just mean the house by the hill.
The Pendle hills are actually a better example of this
Your question about "who decides" whether a place deserves designation is a good one. The "four corners" monument is not precisely placed, but tourists agree on its location, or they don't care that it is several hundred meters off. So, the people going to the trouble of visiting a patio placed in the middle of nowhere are the "deciders".
wait i live in the desert desert?
If you come to hill hill hill hill, you will be scolded, tied to a post and have rocks thrown at your feet.
eveyrbody calls the law hill in dundee the law hill instead of the law o rthe hill
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prince prince
I had a stroke reading the title
That's creepy. I just saw this video, and I'll be going on holiday, in Wanaka, near that tree, tomorrow.
The "trepenna/torpenhow" - "melbn or melbən/melbourne" - "canbra/canberra" - And Canberra is less than 100 years old yet has lost a syllable. Say "Torpenhow" 100 times as fast as you can, rolling your "r"s because that part of England kept rhoticity, and you'll get trepanna like as not, or something akin to it. Remember, spelling tells you old pronounciation, like knight, knife, lamb.
watching this while doing my science homework. makes it bearable
Meanwhhile fantasy authors bend backwards to find an explanation why a river is named the way it is.
The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a slightly raised topographic phenomenon.
bruh the video title xD
In Russian, we could (not necessarily should, but 'could') name this place "Холм Торпенхау-хилл" (Holm Torpenhau-hill) which is now "Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill", the one and only example of a quintuple tautology.
i live next to the "law hill" in scotland, in scotland law means hill
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"Then why am I out of breath" Ah... because you are a really fit 70 years old, obviously
Pen in welsh can mean top or head
This is exactly the kind of geographical nerdiness that the internet is made for and I love! Great stuff.
pen means head, bryn means hill
This debunk of the debunk of Hillhillhill Hill makes me so happy. :D
The maddest thing is that Torpenhow is actually pronounced 'Trepenah'
Stayed in a barn conversion, in Tropenhow, many years ago, while visiting The Lake District. The Sun Inn - the local pub - was closing and we ended up getting 'a lock-in' and a free drinking session. Not 'one' hill was climbed the next day!
Terpen is Dutch for mounds
You want to do something on Braehead shopping centre in Glasgow... Brae scots for hill. Head being top of... Braehead being being the lowest lying piece of sea level flat flood plain land around.... WHY!!!!
Hmm the is a 4 minute video and I was forced to watch a 3 minute manscaped video and a 1 minute video for a product I cannot remember which was obviously very effective. This is the 10th time today I've seen the manscapped ad and I'm not getting more convinced that I should buy 1. If this continues I'm going to have to be done with youtube because 50% ad time is too much.
Four Corners Monument isn't even properly aligned with the actual borders of CO, NM, AZ, and UT, so there's that.
We can make a religion out of this
There is also "East Timor" meaning "East East."
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Tom did you have a stroke writing that title
This is in the middle of nowhere, it's in the southwest peninsula of the Lake District and it feels like another world and is at least 60 minutes drive from the most direct exit on the M6.
its funny, the location above the name of the video is "📍 TORPENHOW HILL"
how in the hell do i live 30 minues away from this when ive never heard about it
See you in 5 years when the whole village is just a giant resort
Mt. Huangshan, China = Mt. Yellow Mountain
"why am i out of breath" because you need to get more exercise, tom
Does this video exist to question it's own ethics? That's very Tom Scott.
Double/Triple names remind me of a city in Australia called Townsville. Townsville City. Why.
So, is this a case of a hill that refuses to be a hill...?
On the flip side, it's entirely possible that the place's name does originate from those three hills, but over time the pronounciation of the village's name changed.
Tor Pen and How are all old Welsh or English for hill. So if English and Welsh settlers arrived there in the 10th century then it's very possible.
or detective comics comics, well actually no DC as it's now known is its name it is no longer detective comics DC is the name detective comics has not been used officially in years so the name DC comics because DC is the compony stop saying detective comics comics your wrong.
"So, who decides that?" the sin of pride, maybe
Nice explanation about making the truth.
“A few geography nerds”, oh Tom.....we are many in number, just....biding our time
Now split Britain into two countries, name one of them "Hill", and it would be "Hill Hill Hill Hill, Hill"
Britain consists of 3 countries already.
I’d like to say, I really appreciate the shadow for the Google Maps marker you added. :)
I once knew about a guy named "Alejandro Alexander..." and something else which the three names where different languages versions of "Alexander" Which made him be called "Alexander Alexander Alexander".
So Pendle hill (hill hill hill) doesn't get a video?
But does it refuse to be a cliff?
A Greyhound dog is a dog dog dog.
Your videos are amusing and enjoyable :]
That's much grander than my previous favorite: The Los Angeles Angels baseball team has a name that translates into English as "The the Angels Angels"
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Pen isn't Welsh for hill 😂 it means top or head 👍
Do not attempt to correct our lord.
Bryn is hill**
Well, I know what I'm naming my firstborn.
Hillary Hill
HillHillHill Hill
This guy can convince me it's a hill or the north pole and I'll believe him. One hell of a guy.
Why do people always vandalize things like this?
2:07 Tom, an Englishman: "I'm not gonna do a colonialism and tell the Lake District's locals who've literally been there, some of whom for centuries & centuries, how they should be naming things..." Me, not an Englishman: "Well, that shows remarkable restraint & is a nice change of pace for somebody who's English. ... Wait - it IS the English we're talking about here..." Tom, an Englishman: "But..." Me, not an Englishman: "THERE IT IS!"
You didn't have to state you're not English, we can tell.
Soooo, is this a name change, a hill to die on?
Let get Tom to colonise the Lake District.
or naan bread
3:36 - “If your dog(s) are caught attacking or worrying livestock on this land they be shot!”. I think this gives us an idea what the locals think haha.
They don't want their sheep to be killed? Sounds reasonable to me...
2:20 that is the most depressing shot I've ever seen. They're all there for attention, not to enjoy the surroundings.
There's a triple near me, Breedon on the Hill, aka Hill Hill on the Hill. That one really is quite steep cos I've walked up it and driven up it. Lovely old church right at the top
great coppice of trees bhind him
I live next to Cuyahoga river, which is short for Crooked River river
Sounds like a ww2 battle ground to me
The "Hillhillhill Hill" is just an alleged hill, which I just think is funny.
The accent😃
Ima walk there
Ok so I got this as a paradox and ho jeez
Pen in Welsh does not mean hill . It means head . Pen-y-bont for example is head of the bridge or Bridgend.
So rebunked
are hills used by flat earthers to prove that the earth is flat?
why are "locals" always thought of as grumpy-ass old farmers
We have a 'three hill' not far from us - Bredon Hill . Bre = Celtic Don = Old English
Bro this video needs to be at 0.75x speed to sound normal
The hill that refuses to be a hill?
one of the videos where you get the title joke twice
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wow i love TAS speedruns
So Requiem Sharks are called Shark sharks then because Requiem in French means *Requin* or Shark
I love how considerate Tom is. Absolutely refreshing.
I think the Welsh word for hill is 'Bryn'. 'Pen' translates more to 'top' or 'head'.
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It's Intresting how we don't have this kind of thing in Greece We've been in battles yes, but our language was mostly the same from then to now so double place ages are not common (or don't exists). to my knowledge
You must be fun at parties
Yes :)
"I probably shouldn't bother the locals by asking how they feel." Is the most British sentiment I've ever heard
Go to that place in Finland that’s lake lake lake, or was when ze Germans were there, Jaurajärvisee