British place-names generated by a neural net

Some aren’t bad, but there’s something a bit off about these.

  • Most sound credibly English, though the inclusion of Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish names in the source data throws off the spelling in ways that conform to none of those languages.
  • I haven’t seen any that look credibly non-English.
  • They seem to have been ‘averaged out’, losing the extremes of bland names and bizarre ones.
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