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Example sentences for: placenames

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Because the model behind the original innovation must be easily recognizable to provide material for a new morpheme, most models are either placenames or common words for locations and activities.
Obviously the short-lived French conquests in the region left behind words and names; here a crazy man is foo [for Fr fou ] or, if you want to insult him, a crapaud toad, while on our little island resolutely British placenames (Grenville, Victoria) nestle beside villages like Perd-mon-Temps, La Tante, Crochu.
Bowman describes how composers have used placenames to express feelings evoked by visits (e.g., Dvorak's From the New World), or to express a nationalistic or patriotic regard for a homeland (e.g., Hindemith's Pittsburgh Symphony).
Even though the American taste for plundering placenames has provided words like telethon to other nations, some have commited semantic thefts of their own.
It has to be said that if one attempts a literal translation of many Chinese placenames one simply ends up with a sense that is surreal rather than suitable.