The choice of a new name for a place may be politically motivated, as the hundreds of towns and villages renamed in the former Soviet Union. There are thus places in the United States that have undergone more than one change of name, such as Glen Ellyn, Illinois, which finally arrived at its present name after a run of six successive earlier names. Sometimes settlers in virgin territory find it hard to decide on a suitable name for their place of settlement. Not all name changes are the result of hostilities. An alternate name may be a respelling, as when a name is restored to a correct form from a corrupt original, or it may even be in a completely different language, as when one country is occupied or conquered by another, a fate that historically befell many European states. (The actual number of alternate names is nearer 9,000, since many places have or had more than one such name.) For the purposes of this record, an alternate name is one that bears or bore an official or at least a semiofficial status, rather than being simply a nickname or a colloquial abbreviation. Introduction This new type of geographical dictionary lists the alternate names, current and historical, by which over 7,000 places in the world are or have been known. The Placenames 7 Appendix I: Names of Places in Non-English Languages 235 Appendix II: Fictional Names of Places 246 Select Bibliography 255 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640 Contents Introduction 1 On the cover: Green hills near Golden Bay, South Island, New Zealand globe both ©2009 Shutterstock Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. 2009 910.3 - dc22īritish Library cataloguing data are available ©2009 Adrian Room. Alternate names of places : a worldwide dictionary / Adrian Room. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
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No idea why infochimps put the word list inside an excel (.xls) file. While searching for a list of english words (for an auto-complete tutorial) A text file containing over 466k English words.
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