Felmyr Place Names (WIP)

[Azélor]

I'm very curious as to why this is. Why do think French names sound odd to you?

Condom, diffidently
. but I don't really have good examples right now, It's more a feeling.

Ok maybe not France but Haiti (a former colonial possession of France) has very strange names if you look on Google map assuming you have some knowledge of French. I assume but could be wrong, that when the slave got their freedom, they did not really speak the language but named towns with French names without knowing the meaning of the words used. Examples: Cabaret, Cul de Sac (dead end) , Pont Janvier (bridge built in january?), Bonnet, Risque but Savane Zombi is probably the best one I could find in a quick search.

I speak French but I'm from Québec. It must be a cultural thing. French only emerged as the dominant language of France recently. During the Revolution, half the French did not speak French well or not at all. They spoke regional languages that are not all ineligible from one to another. France is an older country with many different cultural influences.

Here I'd say that it is less diverse maybe. We have a lot of names based on Saints like St Louis in the US or St Lawrence/St-Laurent, French historical characters: Laval, Chomedey, or based on native American languages. Very few people speak these languages but they are everywhere so these names don't sound odd to me at all: Quebec, Canada, Ottawa, Saskatoon, Ontario, Manhattan, Massachusetts are just a few examples.