Court ruling confirms Dorset village’s name ‘is pronounced scrotum’

Some of the 'news' stories on here are hilarious, I've been laughing very loudly in the office and getting some odd looks whilst reading about the "Busker Strike" and "Toddler Savages Pit Bull"
 
Finally, after considerable research, the judge’s decision was swayed by evidence uncovered by historians showing that the town was named in the 10th Century, after the Anglo-Saxon word Shkoot’m, meaning ‘ball-bag’. The 17th century traveller and diarist William Pearce also referred to the village, which lies between the hilltop settlement of Pizzle’s Pike and the clay-pits of Nether Hole, in his book ‘Willie’s Wayside Wanderings’ describing it as ‘an unfightly and fmellee bulge on the landfcape’, while noting that the local cheese, ‘Schroatham’s Rind’, was renowned for its properties as a hangover cure.
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No way it this real :p Rather funny tho! :D
 
Place down the road from me called 'Puckchurch', when you'r driving through some of the signs have been cleverly edited so the 'P' is an 'F' :D
 
At the end of the day we all began life (at least, 50%) in a scrotum anyway.
Nobody is so posh that they didn't emanate from a man's ball bag.
 
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