Vol. 70 No. 1 (2022): Names: A Journal of Onomastics
Report

Name of the Year Report 2021

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  • I. M. Nick
I. M. Nick
Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/names.2022.2379

Published 2022-03-09

Copyright (c) 2022 I. M. Nick

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Abstract

The fifteenth annual Name of the Year vote was held during the online annual conference of the American Name Society on January 23, 2022. The vote was chaired by Deborah Walker, the ANS Name of the Year Coordinator, and was attended by 23 international onomasticians. This report provides a summary of the deliberations and gives background information about the onomastic nominations.  

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