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You can use the Key to search for a particular place-name, or to browse through the names of a particular county. It will provide you with a name's meaning and a break-down of the different parts of the name (its 'elements') and the language (s) of those elements.
Learn how to pronounce the top UK place names, if you're visiting the United Kingdom, you need to know these to get around like a local.
This revised edition of the Dictionary of British Place-Names includes over 17,000 engaging and informative entries, tracing the development of the featured place-names from earliest times to the present day. Included place-names range from the familiar to the obscure, among them 'Beer', 'Findlater', 'Broadbottom', and 'Great Snoring'.
In this lesson, I will teach you about common suffixes of British town and city names and how to pronounce them correctly every time. I will teach you the etymology of suffixes such as -ham , -bury , -field , -wich , -mouth , -pool , and -ing .
This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use. The study of place names is called toponymy; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland .
14 lis 2018 · London, Leicester and Lincoln: Pronouncing English place names. by Liz Walter. Place names are amongst the hardest words in English to pronounce. Even people with English as a first language are often unable to guess the pronunciation of an unfamiliar place.
Article History. This is an alphabetically ordered list of cities and towns in the United Kingdom, arranged by constituent unit ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales) and by administrative unit (unitary authority, county, and district). ( See also city; urban planning .) England. Bath and North East Somerset (unitary authority)
