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    A Place of Sense: Little-known Meanings of British Place Names
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    A Place of Sense: Little-known Meanings of British Place Names

    By Rick Vivian

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    About this ebook

    The first book
    to detail the speculative history and hidden humour behind the definition of
    British place names.


     


    There are
    over 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 (in
    many documents, a great deal more informatively!) What is commonly overlooked
    is that this conundrum can be true for words that are place-names, every bit as
    much as for those that are not.


     


    For instance,
    even the most erudite students of the English language have not been taught
    that Felixstowe can be ‘a Suffolk dialect word meaning a cat’s claw’, nor,
    indeed, that Sixpenny Handley was ‘an erotic diversion offered to soldiers on
    leave during WW1 in the less genteel parts of our great cities.’


     


    There are many works detailing and
    comparing 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 on
    an 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 desired
    effect (not to be confused with effect!)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTroubador Publishing Ltd
    Release dateFeb 23, 2018
    ISBN9781789010701
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    A Place of Sense: Little-known Meanings of British Place Names
    Author

    Rick Vivian

    Now retired, (he can remember seeing Churchill!), Rick Vivian’s employment has caused him to travel very widely with his work. Despite landing in a few war zones, he maintains that the world is mostly full of helpful and friendly people. Hearing that ‘everyone has a book inside them somewhere’, he thought he should find his before it was too late and he took it with him.

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