A Look Back at the American Name Society

Abstract

Abstract A Look Back at the American Name Society is an occasional section of influ- ential articles from this journal. George R. Stewart’s essay on place names provides a classificatory scheme, which includes: (1) descriptive names, (2) possessive names (3) incident names, (4) commemorative names, (5) euphemistic names, (6) manufactured names, (7) shift names, (8) folk etymological names, and (9) mistake names.

Keywords

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