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	Encyclopedia: List of generic forms in British place names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For example, in places where the Danelaw prevailed and where there is uncertainty over the origin of a place name, it is commonsense to prefer the Old Norse meaning to the Old English one; often, however, they are the same.
		British toponymy (relating to the mainland and islands closely linked to it including the Shetland Islands, the Orkneys, and the Channel Islands) is the study of place names, their origins and the trends associated with naming places in specific regional areas.
		List of cities in the United Kingdom List of towns in England List of burghs in Scotland List of towns in Wales List of towns in Northern Ireland Lists of places List of places in England List of places in Northern Ireland List of places in Scotland List of places...
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	List of generic forms in British place names - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The study of place names is called toponymy; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British place names please refer to British toponymy.
		An interesting example of place naming is Torpenhow (pronounced tra-PENner) Hill, in Cumbria; the name seems to have grown by waves of new inhabitants each taking over the name given by the previous occupants, and adding to it: the three syllables, tor, pen, how, each mean "hill" in a different language.
		For example, in places where the Danelaw prevailed and where there is uncertainty over the origin of a place name, it is common sense to prefer the Old Norse meaning to the Old English one; often, however, they are the same.
	open-encyclopedia.com /List_of_generic_forms_in_British_place_names (629 words)

	List of generic forms in British place names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The study of place names is called toponymy; for a more detailed examination of this subject relative to British place names please refer to British toponymy.
		An interesting example of place naming is Torpenhow Hill, in Cumbria; the name seems to have grown by waves of new inhabitants using the name given by the previous occupants, and adding to it: the three syllables, tor, pen, how, each mean "hill" in a different language.
		In places where the Danelaw prevailed and there is uncertainty over the origin of a place name, it is common sense to prefer the Viking meaning to the Anglo-Saxon, often, however, the two are coterminous.
	www.ukpedia.com /l/list-of-generic-forms-in-british-place-names.html (442 words)

	Toponymy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds.
		Thus, the toponym of Hellespont was explained by Greek poets as being named after Helle, daughter of Athamas, who drowned here as she crossed it with her brother Phrixus on a flying golden ram.
		List of toponyms (with names derived from a place or region)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toponymy (394 words)

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		Place is a term that has a variety of meanings in a dictionary sense, but which is principally used as a noun to denote location, though in a sense of a location identified with that which is located there.
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		List of generic forms in British place names
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	Danelaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From about 800 AD, waves of viking assaults on the coastlines of the British Isles, were gradually followed by a succession of settlers, bringing with them a culture and a tradition markedly different from that of the prevalent Anglo-Saxon society.
		The influence of this period of Scandinavian settlement can still be seen in the North of England and the East Midlands, most evidently in place names: name endings such as "by" or "thorp" being particular giveaways.
		Old Norse and Old English were still mutually comprehensible, and the mixed language of the Danelaw caused the incorporation of many Norse words into the English language, including the word law itself, as well as the third person plural pronouns ''they'', ''them'', and ''their''.
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	The Meaning of Liff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet": all the words listed are place names, and describe common feelings and objects for which there is no current English word.
		A partial list of other examples is also available.
		The book is named after the town of Liff in Scotland.
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	List of reference tables
		This is a list of reference tables, similar to the collection of reference tables found at the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
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	PLACE NAMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		In anatomy, toponym is a name of a region of the body, as distinguished from the name of an organ.
		In biology, a toponym is a binomial name of a plant.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/PLACE+NAMES (484 words)

	ipedia.com: Placename etymology Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ancient Romans used the name Africa terra --- "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) --- for the northern part of the continent, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.
		Said to be named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who featured his own name name prominently on his cartographic works.
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	Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - Wortgeschichte & Wortgeschichten In Planung 51 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In general, these words are made by combining a prefix derived from Latin or Greek number words and a suffix indicating the type or category of the thing being counted.
		Holstein is derived from a Saxon subtribe named Holcetae.
		Several areas in Europe were named by the ancient Germans in the same way, the term used only for places inhabited by peoples of Celtic or Latin descent, including "Wallonia" in Belgium, "Valais" (in Switzerland), Wallachia in Romania and the archaic "Welschenland" a term for Italy.
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	Bibliography of Local History in the UK and Ireland
		The Archif Melville Richards database of Welsh place names and their historical meanings is maintained by the University of Wales, Bangor.
		The Gazetteer of British Place Names: the most exhaustive place name index to Great Britain currently available, containing over 50,000 entries including commonly accepted alternative spellings and Welsh and Gaelic versions.
		Batts, J.B., British Manuscript Diaries of the 19th Century: An Annotated Listing (1976).
	www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Books/Local-history.htm (490 words)

	old norse names place (old norse namse place) information.
		List of place names derived from the Old Norse words for landscape features and other descriptions.
		The Vikings in Normandy: Place names derived from the Old Norse.
		Place names derived from the Old Norse words for landscape features and other descriptions..
	www.wide-find.com /o/old_norse_names_place.html (255 words)

	List of reference tables - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	User: Sjc - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		Wold Newton family family saga Seid (shamanic magic) List of generic forms in British place names +British toponymy Old English language Beowulf (text, translation, and detailed analysis)
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	List of reference tables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Danelaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Danelaw was gradually eroded by Saxon raids in later years, but the influence of this period of Scandinavian settlement can still be seen in the North of England and the East Midlands, most evidently in place names: name endings such as "by" or "thorp" being particular giveaways.
		The distinctive laws applied in the area caused the incorporation of several words into the English language which were derived from Danelaw, including the word law itself.
		See also: List of generic forms in British place names
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	Danelaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Borough derives from the Old English word burg, meaning a fortified town.
		Many of the legalistic concepts were very compatible; for example the viking wapentake, the standard for land division in the Danelaw was effectively interchangeable with the Anglo-Saxon hundred.
		Types of Manorial Structure in the Northern Danelaw, Frank M. Stenton, London, 1910
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		Subject: a question of names again A colleague here at BBN was looking through _Beyond Jason and Jennifer_ one of those lists of names relatives and friends inevitably give to those who are preparing for childbirth.
		Let us, in the name of common sense, prohibit the prohibition of whose inanimate; good writing is surely difficult enough without the forbidding of things that have historical grammar, and present intelligibility, and obvious convenience, on their side, and lack only -- starch' Fowler really does have quite a sense of style in his writing!
		I recall in the early days seeing published lists with headings 'forme fautive' and 'forme francaise', where the former was what everyone always said and the latter was either a French French form, or an invented one.
	www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.2/no.501-550 (17447 words)

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		As to why there is no name for gay men, I can only speculate is because that man wrote history and in his own eyes he wouldn't want to label himself.
		All of this naming is an attempt to make visible who we are, so we don't have to hide anymore, so the power of those who have silenced us in the past is nullified.
		A womn who steps outside the rules of patriarchy and threatens its authority expects to be hated and feared by men and those women who find their source of power in men (pharr, p.27) I think that quote (and the book) is more eloquent than I was regarding the use of the term lesbian.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/Computing/WMST-L/Logfiles/1994/log9401B (13665 words)

	Shipton - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shipton is the name of a number of English villages and hamlets (see List of generic forms in British place names):
		George Shipton (1885–1886) — General Secretary of the T.U.C. Mother Shipton (Ursula Southeil) — English seer and prophetess.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
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	Fine Structure Constant, alpha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is a general connection of the quantum coupling constants with π which was anticipated by R.P. Feynman in a remarkable intuitional leap some 40 years ago as can be seen from the following much quoted extract from one of Feynman's books.
		Circular or cyclical motion in two dimensions is the generic form taken by most simple coupled systems when two objects are involved and implies that π is involved and further two dimension circular motion maps onto unimodular complex numbers like e
		I think the answers are definitely no but it would certainly leave the USA and the UK governments a long list of very expensive follow-up conflicts and increase the terrorist threats from those who will see the war as a criminal and dangerous action of state sponsored terrorism regardless of international law.
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