Above: Photo by dougtone.

Inherently Funny Words. H.L. Mencken explains: “K, for some occult reason, has always appealed to the oafish risibles of the American plain people, and its presence in the names of many […] places has helped to make them joke towns […] for example, Kankakee, Kalamazoo, Hoboken, Hohokus, Yonkers, Squeedunk, ‘Stinktown’ and Brooklyn” (via jimmy_wales).