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In the late 1980s and 1990s, Oxford University Press published three books of names: The Oxford Dictionary of Surnames (Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, 1988); A Dictionary of First Names (Hanks and Hodges, 1990); and A Dictionary of English Place-Names (A.D.Mills, 1998).
My name | Linguism 2008
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White, James: Place-Names in the Thousand Islands; Ottawa, 1910.
Bibliography. 8. Geographical Names Henry Louis 1921
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Society, vol. ii, p. 1, 1870; The Indian Place-Names on Long Island, by W.W. Tooker; New York, 1911; Indian Names of Places in
Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 3. Geographical Names Henry Louis 1921
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With Indian Place-Names and their Meanings, Illustrations, and large Map. 8vo, $3.00.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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With Indian Place-Names and their Meanings, Illustrations, and large Map. 8vo, $3.00.
In Nesting Time Olive Thorne Miller 1874
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With Indian Place-Names and their Meanings, Illustrations, and large Map. 8vo, $3.00.
Little Brothers of the Air Olive Thorne Miller 1874
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Place-Names ... .. p. 82.; and "Carter Papers [Robert Carter's Will]."
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[74] "Hickory Thicket" was located in Richmond County "northeast of Warsaw" according to Miller's Place-Names of the Northern Neck of Virginia, p. 66.
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Place-Names ...., 93, and Greene, The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter ...,
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Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (Oxford 2005) p210 was an independent country that joind the [[United States of America]] -- it was the fiftieth (and last) state to enter into the union.
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