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	Toponymy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It can be argued that the first toponymists were the storytellers and poets who explained the origin of certain place names in order to elucidate their tales; sometimes place-names served as the basis for the legends themselves.
		Toponymists attempt to approximate the original meaning of a place-name, their conclusions often competing with popular or spurious etymologies that may sound more poetic or attractive to tourists.
		Toponymists are sometimes used by governments in order to verify the accuracy of certain names as used by cartographers, the media, researchers, publishers, and their duties also include the inputting of new names into databases and topographical maps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toponymy (460 words)

	Manitoba Conservation
		In Manitoba, the Minister of Conservation is responsible for geographical naming and has delegated the Provincial Toponymist to be the provincial member on the GNBC and to administer the Manitoba Geographical Names Program.
		The toponymist not only relies on maps and local histories, but interviews local residents to determine the names with established local usage.
		The exact application of the name, its specific language, its pronunciation, and its origin and meaning are all important facts to be recorded during a name survey.
	www.gov.mb.ca /natres/lid/geo_names/index.html (1893 words)

	Weird Words: Onomasticon
		An onomastician studies the origin and form of proper names of every kind and the field of study is called onomastics.
		The study of place names is an important onomastic endeavour, and has its own name, toponymy (from Greek topos, a place + onuma), with a toponymist being a person who studies it.
		We must also distinguish between an onomastician and an onomasiologist—the latter studies the principles of naming, such as the way it varies between places and groups of people and how new names are formed.
	www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-ono2.htm (210 words)

	stamboom index ursemmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Uri would be a persons name and heim is the same as heem, so Ursem would be “the residence (or home) of Uri”.
		The last explanation comes from an amateur toponymist.
		The toponymists have come up with at least three different sources.The oldest record of the name of the village of Ursem comes from the merge of “ors” and “hem” (around 1083 – 1120).
	home.planet.nl /~ursem005/familyname.html (224 words)

	UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY - A PLACE FOR YOU
		Toponymists research, collect, and analyze sources containing foreign geographic names information, and recommend policy and procedure for the standardization of foreign geographic names to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (USBGN).
		They execute a comprehensive program of toponymic data collection over foreign areas, and support the population and maintenance of the Geographic Names Data Base (GNDB).
		Toponymists possess knowledge of toponymy; U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) principles, policies, and procedures; and physical geography.
	www.intelligence.gov /3-career_lang_occupations.shtml (900 words)

	Amazon.com: A Dictionary of Pseudonyms and Their Origins, With Stories of Name Changes, 3rd. ed.: Books: Adrian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Top toponymist and onomastician Room doubled the number of entries (to 8000) in this expansive revised edition of his 1989 volume of the same name.
		This is the place to find the real name of actor Laurence Harvey (Larushka Mischa Skikne), to sort through all the names used by Voltaire, or to discover the origins of the names Alice Cooper and Tiny Tim.
		Room, described in the publisher's promotional literature as "a noted toponymist and onomastician," is also the author of Placenames of the World [RBB Je 1 & 15 97] and numerous other name and word origin books.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078640423X?v=glance (664 words)

	Scottish Place Names Around the World
		To find where many other Scottish locations can be found elsewhere than Scotland around the world, go to:
		Toponymist researcher Ian Kendall has provided another perspective.
		He is taking cities and towns around the world and finding the origins of the names used in their districts and suburbs.
	www.rampantscotland.com /placenames/placenames1.htm (175 words)

	Stirlingshire
		Although they were the smallest of the former counties of Scotland, Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire are rich in cartographic source material that sheds light on changing patterns of land use and settlement and provides the toponymist with a wealth of place names.
		At the macro level, well documented surveys of Scotland by Blaeu, Roy and the Ordnance Survey offer varying levels of comparative place name detail from the 17th to the 19th century.
		[This is an excellent journal, with much of interest for the toponymist: many early forms of place-names, and the reconstruction of medieval parishes and other administrative units in the Falkirk area - Ed.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /institutes/sassi/spns/CtStirling.htm (2209 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Scholar regarded as the leading authority on English place names
		Kenneth Cameron, who has died aged 78, was a scholar of place names - a toponymist - who demonstrated the vital relevance of such work to the understanding of English settlement history.
		His publications included a survey of The Place-Names of Derbyshire (1959), and the best introduction to the subject, English Place-Names (1961), finally revised, with characteristic lucidity, for its fourth edition in 1996.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4167404,00.html (454 words)

	V. Gopalakrishna (Institute of Asian Studies, Chennai) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gopalakrishna is a post-graduate and a doctoral degree holder in Kannada of Bangalore University, and has studied Malayalam, Sanskrit, Telugu, Hindi and Tamil as well as English.
		Gopalakrishna, a toponymist specialising in place names, is currently guiding several research scholars to PhD degree in comparative studies.
		He has translated several works from Malayalam to Kannada and vice-versa besides composing original scholarly works in Kannada.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/data/indiv/area/idsas/GOPALAKRISHNA,V.htm (157 words)

	George R. Stewart
		George Rippey Stewart (May 31, 1895 – 1980) was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley (until 1962).
		Born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Stewart was educated at Princeton University, the University of California, and Columbia University.
		"George R. Stewart, toponymist," Names, Volume 24, 1976, pp.
	articles.gourt.com /?article=George+R.+Stewart (297 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Wonderful World of Geographic Names: The Writings of Meredith (Pete) F. Burrill (Toponymist ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		Top of Page : The Wonderful World of Geographic Names: The Writings of Meredith (Pete) F. Burrill (Toponymist Extraordinaire
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0938909126 (153 words)

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		Researcher, Laboratory of Regional Geography and Toponymy, Latvian University; Toponymist, Toponymy Section, State Land Service
		Assistant, Laboratory of Regional Geography and Toponymy, Latvian University; Toponymist, Toponymy Section, State Land Service
		Head, Laboratory of Regional Geography and Toponymy, Latvian University; Toponymist, Toponymy Section, State Land Service
	www.eki.ee /knn/ungegn/bd2a_2.htm (285 words)

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