Names of Places

Ever think about names of places? You know, like Oregon? Kind of sounds like "Or a gun." Or, Portland; now, how original is that? "We will name this city Port-Land." As in, the land with ports where boats can come. Or, Sellwood, the neighborhood where people will, presumably, sell wood.
I have come to the conclusion that there was a decided lack of originality when they generated names for this region.
My mom, for example, lives in a town called Steilacoom. That, my friends, is the name of a town. That is a name you don't fuck around with, much less spell or pronounce. A good town name should separate outsiders from locals, producing embarrassing gaffs by national newscasters like "a 10 year old child was raped by an escaped inmate today in the small western town of Still-I-Cum."
Even California knew to mask any lack of ingenuity with the names of Saints or the heritage of the people they stole the land from. San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Gatos; those are names that pay homage to the land.
But Oregon? We've got one town named Boring and another called Weed. I think that says it all.