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Item Details
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SCOTTISH PLACE-NAMES
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| By: |
David Dorward |
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Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1841588237 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781841588230 |
| Publisher: |
BIRLINN GENERAL |
| Pub. date: |
13 July, 2009 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Offers insights into the myriad of place-names that are found across Scotland. This book presents correct pronunciation of Scottish names with explanations of hundreds of names. It is suitable for an inquiring schoolchild, the hill-walker or mountaineer, the local historian and for those who wondered about the origins of place-names in Scotland. |
| Synopsis: |
David Dorward's book on Scottish place-names is a fascinating volume that offers insight and intrigue into the myriad of wonderful place-names found across Scotland. Much more than simply a dictionary of place-names, Dorward makes the subject accessible to the general reader, with explanations of hundreds of names that are clear and concise, and often witty, and as well as meanings, David Dorward gives the correct pronunciation of Scottish names. This new edition is a mine of information for the inquiring schoolchild, the hill-walker or mountaineer, the local historian - everyone, in fact, who has ever wondered about the origins of the marvelous variety of place-names in Scotland. With many parts of names tracing their roots back to their Celtic, Gaelic or Old English origins, it presents an opportunity for readers to unravel for themselves the meanings of hundreds of local area and landscape names - leading them into fascinating by - ways that anyone who looks up one name will be irresistibly led to explore more deeply. |
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illustrations |
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Non-returnable |
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