Does the sensation of Tingrith(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically
when you see someone Ahenny(2)? Can you deal with a Naugatuck(3) without causing
a Toronto(4)? Will you suffer from Kettering(5) this summer?
Probably. You are almost certainly familiar with all these experiences but just
didn't know that there are words for them. Well, in fact, there aren't--or
rather there weren't, until Douglas Adams and John Lloyd decided to plug these
egregious linguistic lacunae(6). They quickly realized that just as there are an
awful lot of experiences that no one has a name for, so there are an awful lot
of names for places you