TIL there's a town called "Xbox" in Yucatán, southeastern Mexico
TIL there's a town called "Xbox" in Yucatán, southeastern Mexico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox,_Yucat%C3%A1n Coincidence?
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Awesome. I will add it to my list of places I want to visit just based on name alone. A few others include Batman, Turkey, Shitterton, England, and Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Québec.
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Coincidence? Yes.
Not a coincidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences,_New_Mexico
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Additionally, a few years ago, I have seen a post on Reddit about a town in Canada whose streets were named after Warcraft universe locations. (I have forgotten the post but it was really about this)
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One of my favorite geography facts, there are no fewer than three villages named “Shit” in Iran.
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Interesting factoid: X-box (hyphenated) comes from the ancient Mayan Xboox where "X" is the femenine article and "boox" the noun meaning black/dark, literally meaning "The dark one".
The town got its name after a local legend that stated that a dark woman figure appeared by the town's water well.
Source: Historia de Yucatán. Diego López de Cogolludo. 2024. ISBN 8498166403
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What about Batman in Turkey?
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Just to be clear, the name of the word is supposed to be read like "shbosh" or "shboash". Native languages often use ⟨X⟩ for what English uses ⟨SH⟩, because it's what Spanish used to do back then.
Meshico.
I like it.
Not like that!
Just like in Portuguese.