Vol. 60 No. 1 (2012)
Research Article

A Look Back at the American Name Society

Published 2012-03-01

Keywords

  • Doris Lessing,
  • The Fifth Child,
  • Ben,
  • in the World

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.