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Marilyn Munro

A ‘Marilyn’ is a type of mountain or hill in Great Britain, Ireland or surrounding islands with a relative height of at least 150 metres (492 ft), regardless of absolute height or other merit. The name was coined as an ironic contrast to the designation Munro, used of a Scottish mountain with a height of more than 3,000 feet (914.4 m), which is homophonous with (Marilyn) Monroe.

I’ve never heard this term before, and will probably never use it, but I really enjoy the reason it exists.

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