placename

• “The Danish - by is the same as the British - by: every British placename that ends in - by started out as a Viking settlement.”

  Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09

• “In fact, I'm wondering when the association between this placename and Latin rumis started and by what people?”

  An etymology for 'Rome'

• “As I was leaving, the North Carolina placename fell (or was pushed over) and struck me a glancing blow before banging heavily on to the head of a woman standing next to it.”

  Archive 2008-09-01

• “Which merely looks to us like a very rude placename...”

  grahamsleight: Further leg update

• “*** Typo which should be a placename: "Celebratino of Women Writers”

  August 15th, 2007

• “It also seems to be a Norwegian surname, and is definitely a Norwegian placename.”

  May 18th, 2007

• “Form my reading of the post, the purple overlays in the images above - not the blue bounding boxes - are generated automatically by clustering geotagged and placename tagged images and extrapolating a well contoured shape around them.”

  B2fxxx

• “It is especially Afrikaans-speaking people who are confronted with ill-considered placename changes, which are part of our heritage,”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “Alternative hypothesis: anonymous author hears what he regards as a funny-sounding place name, or designation for its residents, and constructs limerick around the placename...”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex, Slang, and Pejorative (or at Least Formerly Pejorative) Ethnic Stereotypes:

• “Later then if the Etruscans were to 'fix' the placename with a 'correct' a, the nasal might go wrong.”

  Those Mysterious Sovanians

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