Ghyll:Gyll Hill

Gyll Hill is one of the many pseudo-places in Ghyll used on surveys, usage metering forms, and other official paperwork that bored Ghyllians want not to fill in seriously. Though there are many other pseudo-places used from time to time--Cheeks' Gap, Suckit Ho, Unkey's Muncle, Little Dingle, and Much Laffing amongst them--Gyll Hill is by far the most commonly used.

Every Folktown Records edition for many years now has contained a mysterious, and now famous, joke advertisement for Gyll Hill signed by a mysterious person going by the pseudonym (presumably) Canonical Goo. After extolling Gyll Hill's virtues, it rounds off with the slogan: "Had your fill of the rest of Ghyll? Come to Gyll Hill!"

Gyll Hill has been mentioned many times in popular culture. The Rock And Toe Band minstrels mention it in their popular song Antiquated Wind. Candi Rapper recently mentioned it several times in her best selling novel My Little Oblong Fantasy.

The "Gyll" in Gyll Hill has been proven etymologically unrelated to the general term "Ghyll" by Ramingotes and Fondal (-35 EC), though it may have influenced its development into the current form and identical pronunciaton.

The irony of the situation is that now every time an adventurer finds a new hill on the Ghyll exploratory frontiers, they feel compelled to call it Gyll Hill in the absence of any other decent name now that all of the celebrities, important figures, letters, numbers, star names, elements, bird-names, and so forth have been used. Thus there are currently two-thousand-and-thirty-eight charted Gyll Hills, making frontiersperson cartographers' lives rather difficult as they struggle to create new footnote marker symbols to distinguish between them all. Lead cartographer Bob Phanqué--known also as the inventor of fecksadecimal, the numbering system for counting sexual intercourse frequency--said "we may be getting to the limit of the amount of scribbles acceptable according to core script graphonomy rules."

Initial outline, not finished, shove your damn "citations" where Pinky and Perky don't shine, &c.

--Sean B. Palmer 18:06, 27 Oct 2004 (EDT)