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- noun The
name of aplace ; aword orphrase which indicates a particularlocation orposition .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Danish - by is the same as the British - by: every British placename that ends in - by started out as a Viking settlement.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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In fact, I'm wondering when the association between this placename and Latin rumis started and by what people?
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As I was leaving, the North Carolina placename fell (or was pushed over) and struck me a glancing blow before banging heavily on to the head of a woman standing next to it.
Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Which merely looks to us like a very rude placename...
grahamsleight: Further leg update grahamsleight 2009
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*** Typo which should be a placename: "Celebratino of Women Writers"
August 15th, 2007 2007
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It also seems to be a Norwegian surname, and is definitely a Norwegian placename.
May 18th, 2007 2007
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Form my reading of the post, the purple overlays in the images above - not the blue bounding boxes - are generated automatically by clustering geotagged and placename tagged images and extrapolating a well contoured shape around them.
B2fxxx 2008
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"It is especially Afrikaans-speaking people who are confronted with ill-considered placename changes, which are part of our heritage,"
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Alternative hypothesis: anonymous author hears what he regards as a funny-sounding place name, or designation for its residents, and constructs limerick around the placename...
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Later then if the Etruscans were to 'fix' the placename with a 'correct' a, the nasal might go wrong.
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