in any language you like.

Shambles, shambolic.......pertaining to a meat shop ( or occasionally a fishambles )

IceBerg.....iceMountain

Hooligan....an irish family of reprobates from yesteryear

Thug.....and Indian violent sect who specialised in garrotting people

Vandal......barbarian tribe of ancient Rome

The barrel of a gun......from original cannon being made at the Coopers.

check-mate....shack-mat....the king is dead. Related to the Shah of Persia

Poppycock.....Dutch...soft shyte

Bothair...irish for Road..from tiny to a Motorway.....Cow track.

Penguin......welsh.....white head.

Bellwether ......in the Stock market, a predictor....on a farm..a castrated Ram with a bell around ( insert possessive pronoun) neck.

Maid.....domestic servant, but actually a virgin. Hence an Old Maid was a pejorative term. Maidenhead....not connected to Hyman Roth from the Godfather.

Flughafen.....german for airport....Flight-Port, sounds like seagulls landing near the pier.

Manhatten....derives from the Munsee Lenape language term manaháhtaan (where manah- means "gather", -aht- means "bow", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we get bows" or "place for gathering the (wood to make) bows"..Archery.

Selhurst is named after the Old English for "dwelling in a wood", or possibly 'dwelling where willows grow'; the name is first recorded in 1225.

Balmoral.....possible Bally More......big town.

Fornication.....a recreational activity performed 'underneath the arches' the Fornix.

The Boer War..........the Farmer War

Idiot....a private person unconnected to Politics of State

Chauffeur....the bloke who keeps the car of a posh person warm.

The River Avon.....river river

The name Penge derives from Celtic words meaning 'head of the wood'; Pencoed in Wales has exactly the same origin. This is one of the few Celtic place names in London and suggests the survival of a native British contingent after Anglo-Saxon colonisation.

Anerley.....Celtic...Aonar...solitary or alone.

Shrove Tuesday, shriven, shrived and wived,.....expunged of one's sins.

Senate...a political house pertaining to old people...connected to Senile.

Yakuza....japanese 893, a poxy hand in cards. A dud, a cast-off.

Southend (on Sea), the southern extremity of the main metropolis of Prittlewell. The small unimportant place , beyond the city walls....a bit like Westminster when it was Thorney Island, an abandoned and desolate place beyond the main parts of London.

Douchebag....a female hygiene product associated with modern day Brighton.

what others ?

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Crawley's name is derived from the Anglo Saxon crawe leah meaning a 'crow infested clearing'

Gatwick : Its name derives from the Old English gāt (goat) and wīc (dairy farm); i.e. "goat farm".

Heathrow or Heath Row was a wayside hamlet along a minor country lane called Heathrow Road in the ancient parish of Harmondsworth, Middlesex,

Stansted was a Saxon settlement (the name means 'stony place' in Anglo-Saxon) that predates the Norman conquest.

Luton......Lea Town....Lea = Loo....for any large body of water. Seems appropriate

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Utopia is 'nowhere' in ancient Greek, and a robot is a slave in Czech (anyone who has to work for nothing - 'robota' is drudgery).

into the old Celtic languages.....Selhurst is etymologically connected to willow from whence we get 'Sally Rod' ..an irish Cane of chastisement.

and it is true...we have caned many teams who visited us and were naughty enough to deserve punishment.

Less of the clack of leather on willow. More willow on flesh.

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Palace

Palatine Hill..... (not Sydenham Hill )....

the name of the Palatine hill in Rome, where the house of the emperor was situated.

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