{"id":7032,"date":"2011-01-11T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T23:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=7032"},"modified":"2021-06-25T17:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T22:32:52","slug":"exclamatory-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/exclamatory-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclamatory Towns!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I intended to focus on places that have punctuation included as part of their official names. I found two basic categories: those with an apostrophe denoting a possessive; and well, that&#8217;s about it. Undeterred, I searched further and eventually found three towns with exclamation points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Excited in Westward Ho!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/66176388@N00\/2792976701\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3089\/2792976701_e31fe9cae4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Westward Ho! Photo by Mark Robinson; (CC BY-NC 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Westward Ho!, UK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The name of a town in Devon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westwardhodevon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is actually Westward Ho!<\/a>. Online maps in general don\u2019t know how to deal with strange exceptions and it\u2019s hard to get any more unusual than the only town in Britain with an exclamation point in its official name.\u00a0 Google Maps <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/uFDh2haTsUvLXhy1A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gets it right<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d always thought of Westward Ho! as a vintage phrase used in the United States as an expression of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/us\/29.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">manifest destiny<\/a> akin to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Go_West,_young_man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Go West, young man<\/a>.&#8221; A lot of good that university degree in History did for me. I discovered later that the origin of that phrase does not even trace to North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westward Ho! was the title of a popular 1855 novel by an Englishman, Charles Kingsley. It involved all kinds of adventures on the high seas and in the Caribbean. The book is still widely available and you can even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Westward-Ho-Charles-Kingsley\/dp\/1500778745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">get a copy<\/a> through Amazon for a few bucks (includes reviews and plot summaries). That&#8217;s pretty remarkable staying power for something I&#8217;d never heard of until this evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel begins in Bideford, in Devon and that&#8217;s the connection. Apparently copyright laws were remarkably lax back then because an entrepreneur, sensing an opportunity to cash in on the popularity of the novel, built a hotel nearby that he named Westward Ho! A village grew around the hotel and it adopted the same name along with the exclamation point. It&#8217;s been that way ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Embarrassed to be Excited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317583@N06\/2424469483\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2402\/2424469483_3202077304_b.jpg\" alt=\"Hamilton Ohio. Photo by John R Stengel; (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Hamilton, Ohio, USA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamilton, Ohio (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/GxS7o4uVHYEhiqix6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>) legally changed its name to Hamilton! in 1986. Like a bad Las Vegas wedding, it may have seemed like the right move at the time but it started to fade once the sun came up. The Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">examined the situation<\/a> fifteen years later [NOTE: article no longer available online]:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;&#8230; today, Hamilton&#8217;s famed punctuation mark has a much lower profile. It doesn&#8217;t generate much more excitement than an ordinary comma or period. The city&#8217;s exclamation point is not on street signs, city office doors, police cruisers or police uniform patches. The Greater Hamilton Chamber of Commerce no longer includes it in its logo. The post office doesn&#8217;t use it, and never has. Yet it hasn&#8217;t completely dropped from view. It&#8217;s still used in the heading on city stationery and appears in some promotional materials&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The article explains that it was intended to generate some attention. That happened for awhile but it passed quickly. Proponents had been influenced by the use of punctuation in the title of the musical, <a href=\"https:\/\/broadwaymusicalhome.com\/shows\/oklahoma.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Oklahoma!<\/em><\/a> From what I could discover, the exclamation point may have been abandoned for all practical purposes but it&#8217;s never been changed back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Doubly Excited in Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/j26\/8037060126\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8459\/8037060126_d069dc24e0_b.jpg\" alt=\"Saint Louis-du-Ha!-Ha! Photo by John Marino; (CC BY 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Saint Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Things must be truly exceptional in Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Qu\u00e9bec (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/dnMBL6d7BFCmADdU7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>) to warrant not one but two exclamation points. They provide several explanations for their unusual name <a href=\"https:\/\/saintlouisduhaha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on their website<\/a> in French. Fortunately there are language tools that will <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=http:\/\/www.saintlouisduhaha.com\/&amp;ei=fKssTYn_B8H68AbIpLmtCQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=3&amp;ved=0CB4Q7gEwAg&amp;prev=\/search%3Fq%3DSaint-Louis-du-Ha!%2BHa%26hl%3Den%26prmd%3Divnsm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">translate this page for us<\/a> automatically. The most plausible explanation, as translated somewhat incoherently by Google, would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;\u2026 according to the Geographical Names Board of Qu\u00e9bec, the reality is this. &#8216;The haha&#8217; in French, is an archaism that identifies a blind alley, a cul-de-sac, an impasse, an unexpected obstacle. Now, 8 km east of the resort, we found the lake T\u00e9miscouata makes a sharp curve to the northeast, forming a small bay. Thus, the old passenger were they to make a portage of 80 miles, this cul-de-sac, haha, prohibiting the continuation of a journey by canoe. To do this, they were forced to borrow the territory in which the municipality of Saint-Louis du Ha Ha was implanted.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It didn\u2019t make complete sense to me either so I plugged the same phrase into four different French-to-English translators. The consensus seems to imply that if a person traveling by canoe reached the northeastern end of Lake T\u00e9miscouata, they then had to complete an 80-mile portage through land that is now part of Saint-Louis du Ha!Ha! It must be a really really big obstacle to justify two exclamation points!! Maybe our longtime reader Thias in France can provide us with a better translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One More Oddball<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sacharules\/22761196152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3721\/10680521845_6f158f37f8_b.jpg\" alt=\"_MCD8648.jpg. Photo by Morgan Davis; (CC BY 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>State Library of New South Wales, Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t quite as good because it&#8217;s not a geographic designator but I still found it amusing. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">State Library of New South Wales, Australia<\/a> has an interrobang logo (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/9ffeBiMUHDH8Ha6Q9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). That&#8217;s a strange bit of punctuation combining an exclamation point with a question mark. An example of this occurs when my wife asks, &#8220;are you going out looking like that?!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does anyone know other official place names with unusual punctuation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I intended to focus on places that have punctuation included as part of their official names. I found two basic categories: those with an apostrophe denoting a possessive; and well, that&#8217;s about it. Undeterred, I searched further and eventually found three towns with exclamation points. Excited in Westward Ho! 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