place-naming

We'll see how Obama does with place-naming when he voyages to the Old World.

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I can already see a few potential problems with the various approaches for place-naming, which likely have lead to the variations that already occur.

Foreign place names (1) | Linguism | Language Blog 2008

I can already see a few potential problems with the various approaches for place-naming, which likely have lead to the variations that already occur.

Foreign place names (1) | Linguism 2008

I can already see a few potential problems with the various approaches for place-naming, which likely have lead to the variations that already occur.

Foreign place names (1) | Linguism 2008

Divulged consciously or unconsciously through colloquial references to place, conventions of place-naming, and (perhaps most importantly) spatialized portrayals of the self, an individual's "sense of place" offers a valuable window on the pasts of which his or her life is a part.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Undoubtedly named before "hooker" meant "prostitute who picks men up on street corners," Hookersville combines two crimes of place-naming.

A Top 22 Most Absurd Place Names List | Impact Lab 2007

The problem of historical place-naming in southeastern Africa becomes even more acute when we turn to the past beyond women's memories, a past for which records are fragmentary, fugitive, and cryptic about such issues as why people conceptualize the world the way they do.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Although he is dealing not with physical map-making but with the place-naming practices of the Western Apache, his comments about the relationship between "place-making" and history have been very helpful to me here.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Following local conventions of place-naming, women divided the physical landscape into units delineated and named according to the person or entity using them at the time, whether an ethnic group, a clan, a chief, a commercial farmer, or even the state (e.g. postindependence state farms referred to as "ka Xitatari," "the state's place").

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

The Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states, with their ripe mining-camp history, offer up the most offensive place names, but even staid Newfoundland has a village named Dildo situated next to Spread Eagle Bay.… Although general readers will find much of the procedural and bureaucratic details of official place-naming arcane, they will enjoy a trove of giggle-inducing lore.

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