No Pony is an Island · 4:06pm Jan 23rd, 2016
GM Berrow is true master at the art of the pony place-name pun, that unique literary device which makes our genre of writing so supremely equine.
Daring Do and the Marked Thief of Marapore is a valuable reference on ponthropology, with many splendid examples of horsey geography. Following a rough voyage on the Fillyppine Sea, Daring is called to the mysterious volcano Mount Vehoovius, the eruption of which threatens the town of Ponypeii. Appropriately enough, she encounters Captain Pony the Elder and the Stalwart Stallion of Neighples in her search for the Flankara Relics.
There’s a lovely tip of the pith helmet to J.K. Rowling, as the notes explain that A.K. Yearling (a graduate of Pranceton University) also wrote an essay entitled “What Was the Name of That Griffon Again? Or, Beak and Roaming Studies Recalled.” Published in the University of Equexeter’s journal Pegasus. After reading about JK's contributions to the classics (see page 25 of issue 41), I am curious to know what AK had to say about the Griffons.
One reference, however, proves a little more thought-inducing than most, at least for those with enough grasp of Latin etymology to deconstruct peninsula as almost-island, thus referring to a land mass projecting into a body of water. We can only speculate what sort of geographical feature is the Yucatán Ponynsula.
Wow. I have to admire Berrow's dedication to the noble art of the horse pun, especially the Rowling connection. Still, the ponynsula was a bit much.
Ponynsula? I don't even know how to pronounce that.
I'm going to have to assume in the Equestrian universe, in their equivalent of Latin, the only words were: pony, mane, mare, stallion, and hoof, and they just relied very heavily on context to communicate.
3707924 po (like pony) nin (like ninja) su (don't know) la, I guess?
That pun isn't hard to understand when you know French : péninsule.
3708234
Makes sense. I should've seen that
¡I love world-building!
Among the authors here, Cold In Guardes, is so good at world-building that he can write characterless stories with nothing but world-building.
Well duh!
It's obviously a peninsula, but shaped like a pony, but not an island, cause either the tail or a hoof or the peninsula pony's muzzle or something is still attached to the mainland. It's obviously a pony shaped land mass, cause pegasusues **PEGASI**
can fly up high enough to see the pony shape! 
3712100
Obviously.
maneland
3713107 I blame my having gotten neigh-rly any sleep at all lately for missing such an obvious horsy pun.