A Place of Sense : Little-known Meanings of British Place Names Paperback / softback
by Rick Vivian
Paperback / softback
Description
The first bookto detail the speculative history and hidden humour behind the definition ofBritish place names. There areover 150 homographs in common use. Consider: 'bow' meaning bow or bow, 'object'meaning object or object, 'moped' meaning moped or moped; the list goes on (inmany documents, a great deal more informatively!) What is commonly overlookedis that this conundrum can be true for words that are place-names, every bit asmuch as for those that are not. For instance,even the most erudite students of the English language have not been taughtthat Felixstowe can be 'a Suffolk dialect word meaning a cat's claw', nor,indeed, that Sixpenny Handley was 'an erotic diversion offered to soldiers onleave during WW1 in the less genteel parts of our great cities.'There are many works detailing andcomparing the meanings of non-titular homographs; far fewer do so for names.
A Place of Sense takes examples which are all genuine places that may be found onan OS map and seeks to redress that balance, at least to a small degree, with a large dose of humour.
The author hopes it has the desiredeffect (not to be confused with effect!)
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:136 pages
- Publisher:Troubador Publishing
- Publication Date:28/03/2018
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- ISBN:9781788037563
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:136 pages
- Publisher:Troubador Publishing
- Publication Date:28/03/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781788037563
