Post #187166 by Humuhumu on Sat, Sep 17, 2005 3:38 AM

There was a town in Alaska named Ptarmigan, after the bird. The people in the town had enough trouble with the silent p, either with spelling/pronouncing it themselves, or with others not from the town, that they gave up and renamed the town Chicken, Alaska.

At least, that's the story I'd heard. I didn't bother to check & see if it's true, because I'd rather it just is.