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British place-names in their historical setting

British place-names in their historical setting

McClure, Edmund

Paperback

LinguisticsGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 9353703794
ISBN13: 9789353703790
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 20 2019
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Every map of Britain is a palimpsest. Turn its familiar names into living history. Names remember what we forget. In British place-names in their historical setting, Edmund McClure opens a clear path into british place name origins, showing how sound, spelling, and settlement leave traces in the landscape. Part place name etymology guide and part historical linguistics study, it reads like a detective work of language: how older tongues and later arrivals shaped what we still say on station platforms, road signs, and parish registers. For readers drawn to local history through toponyms, the book offers grounded, readable explanations of historical meanings of place-names and the cultural layers behind them, from early medieval Britain onwards. For researchers, it stands as a dependable toponymy reference book and english etymology reference, attentive to the wider british isles toponymy tradition and the tools of onomastics and name studies. If your interests run to genealogy and local history, McClure helps place a family name, a village, or a boundary stone back into the older world that named it. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today; a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, and a thoughtful addition to the shelves of students of name history and classic reference-book collectors.

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