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This Melrose Place- style soap about aspiring Olympic athletes is deemed the most uncouth of the new teen and twentysomething shows.
Among the scholarly pioneers was George R. Stewart, whose considered reflections are collected in standard works entitled Names on the Land (1945, revised 1958 and 1967) and American Place-Names (1970).
Frank Abate (“Unraveling the American Place-Name Cover” [XVIII,2]) missed a few choice names: there is a village (though without a post office) named Obtuse , Connecticut; many know about Truth-or-Consequences , New Mexico, named for an old quiz show.
A companion article, again by the editor, concludes the articles in Pubs, Place-Names and Patronymics and covers the years 1962-1979.
They have complacently chosen to update and marginally simplify Eilert Ekwall's previous Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names . I see very little evidence that they stopped to think who would be interested in this specialized information, and how it could best be presented.
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