Awesome Names

We’ve stopped at the Bong Recreational area in Wisconsin and driven through Dildo, Newfoundland, but many other places have funny names too. Language expert RobWords takes us on a virtual trip around the globe to introduce us to places with names like Dick’s Knob, Scratchy Bottom, and Fan y Big.

The name “Tiffany” became wildly popular back in the 1980s. But the name came to be long before the I Think We’re Alone Now singer. Learn about the origins of the name and its history over the years in only the way that CGP Grey can tell a story.

Photographer David Friedman of Ironic Sans pays tribute to his own first name with this supercut of movie and television scenes where people utter his name. But it’s not just an assemblage of random scenes, rather an entire emotional story arc for Dave and company.