Related: People talking about "The La Brea Tar Pits" are being redundant. "La Brea" in Spanish means "the tar", so they're saying "The the tar tar pits."
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I read that as "lá breá" ( "lovely day" in Irish) . I think "lovely day tar pits" is an endearingly upbeat name for a group of tar pits.
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Ha! Too funny.
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Pendle Hill’s name (in Lancashire, England) comes from the Cumbric and Old English for “hill” so is essentially hill hill hill.
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Or, as locals call it, "3-El 2-Castillo"
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Similar thing with Bredon Hill and Pendle Hill, a mishmash of Celtic, Old English and Modern English, they both effectively mean Hillhill Hill!
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Or in Arabic ال ال القصر
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Arancini balls
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good!!!!
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