Ha! Fun observation indeed 
Polish (and I think most Slavic languages) are broken in the Southern Hemisphere. The words for "north" and "south" are identical to the words for "midnight" and "noon" respectively. The idea is that the direction is where the sun is at that time.
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We take our revenge for their disregard by pronouncing Slavic names horribly e.g. ask an Australian how to say "Mount Kosciusko".
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Do you mean Mount Kościuszko? ;)
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Nope, it's just polish and belarusian
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How do you even know it?
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not the case in russian. midnight is polnoch, but north is sever. noon is polden but south is yug
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It's the same in Czech; midnight = půlnoc (half-night), noon = poledne (you can hear literal half-day in there), north = sever, south = jih
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Really nice observation. Works for Ukrainian and Russian languages too.
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That wasn't what
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Similar to French that uses "midi" as synonym for South. But at the end, I don't think that matters much. People just use words without thinking much on their origin.
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That, I did not know, but now you mention it, like Bruxelles Midi?
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