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  2. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use. The study of place names is called toponymy ; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland .

  3. Category:Lists of place names - Wikipedia

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    These are lists of place names, i.e. lists of places mainly ordered by place name. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.

  4. List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names

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    Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g., the adjective Czech does not qualify). Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.

  5. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.

  6. List of United Kingdom locations: X-Z - Wikipedia

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    This is part of the list of United Kingdom locations: a gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's locality and geographical coordinates. Y [ edit ]

  7. Chester (placename element) - Wikipedia

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    Names ending in -cester are nearly always reduced to -ster when spoken, the exception being "Cirencester", which (commonly nowadays) is pronounced in full. [2] However, names ending in -ster are not necessarily related, as the Irish province of Leinster , which comes from the tribe Laigin + Irish tír or Old Norse staðr , both meaning "land ...

  8. Why is X still called Twitter? - AOL

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    The X rebrand may have a harder journey, Withey said, due to it being an unusual case of a high equity brand — one that was a cultural force for well over a decade — being renamed overnight.

  9. List of United Kingdom locations - Wikipedia

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    Location names beginning with V. Location names beginning with V; Location names beginning with W. Location names beginning with Wa–Wal; Location names beginning with Wam–Way; Location names beginning with Wd–West End; Location names beginning with Weste–West L; Location names beginning with West M–Wey; Location names beginning with ...