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It's rolling out an update to Google Maps on Android and iOS that can speak place names in the local language. You can point a driver to a Japanese cultural center or a Spanish tapas bar without ...
Places in Andaman & Nicobar Islands Port Blair (after Archibald Blair, Esq, Captain in the Maritime Establishment of the East India Company at Bombay) Ritchie's Archipelago (after John Ritchie, 18th-century British marine surveyor)
The processes by which place names change include abbreviation, conflation, convergence, development in the parent language (but stasis in the place name [vague]) and replacement of the parent language. The latter in particular can result in dramatic shifts in place names, since the original meaning (and often sounds) are not conveyed in the ...
The origins of British place names (archived 1 March 2012) An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall; Celtic toponymy (archived 10 February 2012) The Doukhobor Gazetteer, Doukhobor Heritage website, by Jonathan Kalmakoff. O'Brien Jr., Francis J. (Moondancer) "Indian Place Names—Aquidneck Indian Council" Ghana Place Names
Less concentrated groupings of foreign place names are Norwegian names throughout Minnesota, Czech names in southeast Texas, and Dutch names in the Hudson Valley of New York. The Hudson Valley locations are so named because the area was a Dutch colony before it became an English colony. But not all the immigrants concentrated so heavily.
A key to English place-names from the Institute for Name Studies, Nottingham; University of Wales Place-name Research Centre; Place-names and the Scots language: the marches of lexical and onomastic research; Domesday Book place-name forms—All the original spellings of English place-names in the Domesday Book (link to PDF file).
The introductory chapter defines and presents the basics of toponymy and toponomastics. The second chapter Language Change explores how toponyms, despite their status as linguistic fossils, are subject to both internal and external forces of language change, and demonstrates their crucial role in deciphering ancient writing systems like Linear B and potentially unlocking the secrets of ...
Image credits: Google Street View While the idea seems deceptively simple, just hiring folks to ride around in cars equipped with special cameras, Google had to overcome all sorts of different ...