The kannel. Yes, it's for wrinklies, tourists and retrogrades. No. Try this one: youtube.com/watch?v=0WHtim…

And since we're on the kannel, the Russian Musical Association founded in 1864 at Narva mnt 26 was named after its counterpart across the border, Гусли, or Gusli. Here, played by Olga Glazova. youtube.com/watch?v=bo8vDU…

OTD 1. 14/06/1858: The significant date in the Mahtra War, a peasant insurgency resulting from failures in land reform 2. 14/06/1941: Soviet Union deported >10000 ppl, incl >7000 women, children and elderly to Siberia (see estonianworld.com/life/estonia-r…)

Today, for the first time in my 30-yr professional life, I interpreted an interview with an #odonymist Obviously he was very smart 😇

Miku tee 8, 10 & 11 land plots up for suggested uses. Ideas to [email protected], you have until 30/11/2020. tallinn.ee/est/Uudis-Piri…

Tallinn has quietly or otherwise removed most of the streetnames forced upon it in the past. Not always easy, take a look at this example from Canada... huffingtonpost.ca/entry/swastika…

Interesting project going on at Glasgow University: a survey of the place-names of Iona and nearby Staffa. See iona-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk Iona's Namescape: Place-Names and their dynamics in Iona and its environs

In other news: today it was announced that the celebrated naughtynym in Austria, Fucking, will be renamed Fugging as from 01/01/2021. Sad news indeed for all we juvenile smutophiles 🥴

Another place I would rather not have as an address:

Not recent news, but although Wincanton, UK, twinned (2002) with Ankh-Morpork, half-heartedly baptized Morpork St, Peach Pie St and Treacle Mine Rd in 2009, the rest of the development seems pretty bland and, end of 2020, still largely unfinished. As to Kinklebury?...

Just doing your job in the Highways Authorities

Thanks to Jackie Sojico for the map of Scottish snow plough names going the rounds. A new naming discipline we could perhaps call #vomernivinymy

We need more street names like this (Genova, Italy) Image stolen from Emanuela

11 Weird Place Names From Around the World | Me... sco.lt/6m1wJM via Scoop.it But why South-Estonia? When all its neighbors (googlemap "Carrer Sud-Estònia, Calafell"), are whole-country (Dinamarca, Anglaterra, Etceterra)...

No, you were the 21st...

And in French the now more common 'fleur de sel' is considered to represent a 'better quality', usually sea, salt.

The world wakes up. "It was a novelty at first [...] Now it's an embarrassment. The man's an idiot and I don't like his brand of politics". rawstory.com/bank/ottawa-re…

According to etymonline.com/search?q=siber… "*said* to come from Sibir, ancient Tatar fortress at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh rivers" (my emphasis)

Ой! Какой буржуазный декаданс!

Et pour l'anglais: "It's double Dutch!"