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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5012073" data-attributes="member: 25619">Nod, this is my method too.  I often just do it in English, or slightly archaic or mispronounced English.  I grew up in New England, and lived in England, so I picked up how names work from there.But from New England, I need to add two additional naming conventions:4. Settlers naming things after unrelated places in their homelands.5. Conquerers keeping (or mispronouncing) native names.I lived in a town with roads like Trinity Pass (where three roads meet), Upper Shad and Lower Shad Road, High Ridge Road, Long Ridge Road, etc.  I think names like that work fine, assuming "English" is the language of your area.I'm sure you could also do this but translate into other languages to make it less clear.  For example, High Ridge into:- Hoge Rand (Dutch)- Haut Ridge (French)- Alto Ridge (Spanish)- Hoher Hugel (German)One of the best examples of mispronunciation by conquerors that I've seen is the body of salt water between the Bronx (a peninsula) and Manhattan (the island at the center of New York City).  The Dutch called it Spuyten Duyvil.  The British conquered New Amsterdam, and a century later during the American Revolution, the British military map showed it as "Spiking Devil Creek".  Apparently, "Spuyten Duvyil" means Devil's Whirlpool, but the English just turned the sound of the Dutch words into whatever sounded closest in English.There are many examples like that with misunderstood French in England . . .</blockquote>

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