Sometimes it's a case of an element used outside its natural habitat. Halifax building society ran a mortgage ad many years ago featuring the made-up village of Bigglesthorpe in Kent. Sounds fine if you're unaware that Kent is thorpeless.
Paul (still wincing a decade later)
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I was struck by Keith's comment on his site: "Made-up place-names in novels and films always sound wrong, even though they are made up of the right elements. Why is this?" I don't know the answer, but would anyone like to suggest an explanation of the village-name "King's Abbotts" which I once came across in Agatha Christie. I think?
John Freeman
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