Vol. 60 No. 1 (2012)
Research Article

A Look Back at the American Name Society

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  • Names: A Journal of Onomastics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/0027-773811Z.0000000006

Published 2012-03-01

Keywords

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

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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.

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