It is also, and I'm not sure why, not uncommon for German immigrants  
to give things/places names that English speakers would consider  
"immodest". In some cases it is just a misunderstanding. Intercourse,  
PA is at a road junction.

James Brothers, RPA
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On Jan 3, 2007, at 21:58, Lyle E. Browning wrote:

> Effing Creek and Tickle C**t Creek were supposedly named by the  
> local inhabitants who were devoutly predisposed to the idea that  
> government was totally intrusive and so thought that by using  
> offensive names, they would keep government and civil folk at some  
> remove from their general locations. But, where I read that I  
> cannot remember. I'd check in Nicholls, Michael Lee, 1972 Origins  
> of the Virginia Southside, 1703-1753: A Social and Economic Study.   
> Ph.D. Dissertation, College of William & Mary, or in Kulikoff, Allan
> 1986 Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in  
> the Chesapeake, 1680-1800.  University of North Carolina Press.
>
> But as their influence waned, Modest Creek was the 180° counterpart.
>
> Lyle Browning
>
> On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Clara Callahan wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know know how F--king Creek in colonial Lunenburg  
>> County got its name, and does this mean that in Colonial Virginia  
>> circa 1732 it was not a worty dird?
>>
>>   http://www.mindspring.com/~baumbach/ppoole/ppoole5.htm
>>
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