Hi everyone I need some help with inventing the name for an English town in my detective novel. The novel is set in the United Kingdom (England, home counties). The town is modelled on Bury St Edmunds, but I have to disguise it. Because it has to do with a cult of Diana (obliquely), I had in mind the name Selçuk but I need help with anglicising it convincingly. Thank you!
If I want to use a town but not disclose it, I stick the spelling into an anagram machine and see what comes up - you won't use these but they are fun Bury St Edmonds = Buddy Monsters Busty Mod Nerds St Dumb Drynose Take out the St and you get Derby Mounds - might be interesting if a hill features...
@Nee: I can't because someone might recognise themselves in it @erbh: I like that process! It doesn't feature hills but the most fitting name you suggested would be Dumb St Drynose It's one of those weird Suffolk towns with a cathedral that dates back to the Doomsday book and a next door village called Fornham St Martin. It's perfectly flat, fairly green, farmland outside, mansions hidden behind walls of forest. It's similar somewhat to towns from Miss Marple movies.
. Use this fake name generator - loads of plausible English town names come out. Or perm some of these.
Thank you @SwampDog, that link went straight into bookmarks @Em_Anders: thanks for the suggestion, I like it!
