1974: The Town with 2 Exclamation Points May 11, 2020

Most places in the world don't have punctuation in their names; punctuation is for grammar after all. However, even though many places have multiple words, the Quebec town of "Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!" has a record for the most exclamation points in an official name: 2. This might sound like a joke, literally, but actually this is from the word 'ha ha' which is the term in both French and English for a ditch with the wall inside below ground-level. These are easy to fall into, and hence: ha ha. The term was originally French, and since French can't have [h] at the beginning of words, this is pronounced in French like more of an alarmed shout: ah! ah!.

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