Despite its unromantic name, the Welland is picturesque and bisects the town as well as creating a delightful island of open ground called the Meadows.

Bruce wouldn't plug in anything else, of course, and Keith Richards gives his retuned vintage favourites in butterscotch defiantly unromantic names: Malcolm, Micawber and Gloria.

And Anne is such an unromantic name.

The hero of the story is a state program with an unromantic name -the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority, or Pennvest.

(And it is in any case a singularly unromantic name!)

Despite their unromantic name - Brown Turkeys - these figs are the most like the Mediterranean variety and are particularly good with rich meats and in desserts with creamy sauces.

Physiologists call Jacobson's organ the vomeronasal organ, an unromantic name, not a hot title.

The R4 (what a desperately unromantic name for a ship) counts as medium-luxury, somewhere between three and four stars in land-locked hotel ratings.

This maritime carcass once went by the bluntly unromantic name of Lightship No. 84.

And the sea slug, despite its unromantic name, has a graceful solo that matches its role in the ocean.