Generate english place names

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HoboBen	Created : 13 June 2010 Edited : 13 June 2010 Generate english place names
A set of rules for programatically generating English-sounding place names. town = ton, tone, ham, shire, by, cot, cott, cotte, stoke, stow, wick, wich, worth, eaton, folk castle = bury, borough, brough, burgh, burh, chester, cester, caster, minster, castle, ter river = ford, ax, ex, beck, bourne, burn, mere, mouth, bridge, pool, pill sea = sea, port, port, cove, sey forrest = ash, ac, acc, ock, bex, firth, shaw, wold, weald hill = beck, berry, berry, don, den, hurst valley = combe, dale, don, den, dean, fos, hope flat = field, shep, swin, mil north = nor, north east = ast, est, east* south = sud, sut, suff, south west = west* prefixes = grim, bri, swans, war, nun, ox, kings, bishops, man, new, sut, wat, old, corns, shrop, rye, der, dud, bol, stock, cam* suffixes = ing, ley, leigh, end, *gate modifiers = nt:nst, ee:e, ss:s, mm:m, ee:e, cc:c, mm:m, nm:m, nn:n, nt:nd, dt:dst, dc:dsc, mt:mpt --v Method: 1: Choose a term from "river", "sea", "forest", "hill", "valley", "flat", "north", "south", "east", "west" or "prefixes". 2: If you picked a prefix, choose a term from "town", "castle" or "suffixes", otherwise choose a term from "prefixes" 3: If in step two you picked a suffix from "town" of three letters in length or less, optionally pick an additional suffix from "town" or "castle". 4: If in step two you picked a prefix from "prefixes", optionally pick an additional suffix from "town" or "castle". 5: Concatenate the terms 6: For each modifier, where modifier is "a:b", search for "a", if found, replace with "b".

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Sunday, 13 June 2010, 16:12
Jayenkai	Hmmm.. I wonder what you'll be using this for Cool!
Sunday, 13 June 2010, 18:21
HoboBen	Got a welsh version done. Most welsh names also include a name, e.g. Abertawe means the "river Tawe"... And you can also have fun repeatedly adding words, e.g. "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" is a real place. I can't remember any welsh mutation rules, but I doubt many people would notice anyway. town = lan, lhan, llan, tre, llan, betws, capel, pentre, sir, tref castle = caer, car, dinas, cas, castell, din, plas* river = aber, afon, tawe, lin, llyn, pont, pwll, cors, cymer, ffynnon, glan, morfa, nant, pistyll, rhaeadr, rhyd sea = porth, dwfr, môr, draeth forrest = coed, coed, cot, cott, ffridd hill = blen, blaen, bre, mynydd, pen, allt, clog, clogwyn, llech, maen, mawr, moel, ogof, penrhyn, rhiw, brin* valley = cwm, pant, bwlch, dyffryn, glyn, hafn, nant, ystrad flat = ystrad, merf, cae, croes, dol, erw, erw, gwaun, waun, llannerch north = daru* east = dwyrain* south = deau* west = gorllewin* prefixes = dydd, merthyr, dewi* sant, carn, melin, buellt, wydd, rug suffixes = fair, tydfil, coch, goch, ger, bedd, glas, cil, ffin, ffordd, eglwys, hafod, hendre, newydd, pandy, rhos, duon, ddu, arlâg, ddau modifiers = rc:rg --v (A couple left out because they can't actually be represented in extended ascii - the w with a roof and the y with a roof were left out!) For my game, I still need to do the same for Norse, Egypt and Greek places.
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 08:55
Erebel55	Interesting snippet, Hobo

Generate english place names

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