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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 .
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Location Locality Coordinates (links to map & photo sources) OS grid reference; Yaddlethorpe: North Lincolnshire: Yafford: Isle of Wight: Yafforth: North Yorkshire
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.
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.
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
/ ˈ b ɛ k ə n z f iː l d / ⓘ England: Beaminster: BEM-in-stər / ˈ b ɛ m ɪ n s t ər / England: Beauchamp Roding: BEETCH-əm / ˈ b iː tʃ ə m / England: Beauchief: BEE-chif / ˈ b iː tʃ ɪ f / England: Beaudesert [3] [4] like Belzer / ˈ b ɛ l z ər / England: Beaulieu [2] BEW-lee / ˈ b j uː l i / England: Bellingham ...
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