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50 Best Canadian Placename Transpositions [PDF]
, 2004 In previous issues of Word Ways, we\u27ve had extensive lists of transpositions of place names: US state names, US place names, British place names, and so on. But what about the other country in North America, Canada?
Francis, Darryl
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Kétnyelvűség és névszemiotikai tájkép [PDF]
, 2015 The paper examines the connections between bilingualism and the name-semiotic landscape, focusing especially on the name-semiotic landscape of Slovakian settlements populated by Hungarian minorities as well as on name laws affecting the visual use of ...
Bauko, János
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Xhosa Onomastics as Part of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)
Names, 2014 The idea of indigenous knowledge has gained conceptual and discursive currency only recently in Africa and has become a popular subject. It could presumably be traced back to the origin of humankind.
Bertie Neethling
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Voronoi-Based Region Approximation for Geographical Information Retrieval with Gazetteers
, 2001 Gazetteers and geographical thesauri can be regarded as parsimonious spatial models that associate geographical location with place names and encode some semantic relations between the names.
Alani, Harith +2 more
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Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok tagállamainak hivatalos és informális elnevezéseiről, a tagállamnevek magyar fordításáról [PDF]
, 2009 State names and state nicknames in the United States. The Hungarian translations of US state names This paper presents some general features of name giving processes adopted by Europeans arriving in the recently discovered New World in colonial times
Bölcskei, Andrea
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Naming of Some Selected Macro Settlement Places in Gojjam
Journal of Ethiopian StudiesThis study aims to investigate the naming systems, meanings, and languages of place names, contributing to sociolinguistic knowledge for the people. The study employs a descriptive qualitative research design.
Walelign Melak +2 more
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People and Places of Historical Europe: Bootstrapping Annotation Pipeline and a New Corpus of Named Entities in Late Medieval Texts [PDF]
, 2023 Vít Novotný +4 more
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The Slaveholders of Adams County
, 2003 This catalog of slaveholder names includes all known slaveholders in Adams County both before and after its split from York County in 1800. Included with each name are the place or places of residence and the year or years of documented slave ownership ...
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A STUDY OF PLACE - NAMES OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS OF AMALNER OF JALGAON DISTRICT (MAHARASHTRA)
, 2022 Mahajan Mk, Mahendra Mahajan
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600 Transposals of UK Place Names [PDF]
, 2003 The May 1990 issue of Word Ways carried an article of mine entitled London Wordplay . This was an examination of transposals, transadditions, beheadments and a variety of other wordplay based on place names in and around London ...
Francis, Darryl
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