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Example sentences for: place-name

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Other notables in this necessarily brief catalogue of American toponymists include Henry Gannett, working around the turn of the century, who compiled several state gazetteers and a still influential study on the origin of U.S. place names; H. L. Mencken, with several seminal chapters in his American Language (1936); and Kelsie Harder, whose Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada (1976) remains the most reliable resource for place-name origins.
He will have had no need to consult the Introduction to discover that Tætel's name is preceded by *because it is “inferred from comparative [place-name] evidence and postulated to occur.”
Dr. Frank R. Abate, who has been conducting research for a comprehensive place-name catalogue, has sent us a listing of some interesting names in the U.S. that raises some questions.
' Dunkling and Gosling and Hanks and Hodges, on the other hand, take such names back to their own origin, often in a place-name.
Reluctantly I have to admit that the reader has no right to expect poetry or wit in this latest Oxford place-name dictionary.