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Example sentences for: place-name

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I have read that toponymy, gazetteers, and place-name surveys receive more formal attention in the U.K. and Europe.)
' My further point is that to be totally successful, a dictionary of this kind requires far more than the academic skills of a place-name specialist.
Allen Walker Read, whose distinguished career now spans seven decades, contributed solid yet always thoroughly enjoyable papers, and in addition has given us the handy phrase “place-name cover” to describe how place names indeed blanket the country with richness, color, and texture.
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.
So despite more than 200,000 populated place names recorded in the Omni Gazetteer , there are still many areas of the country where the place-name cover is thin.