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A Dictionary of English Place Names
by A. D. Mills
from Oxford University Press, USA

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• He looks in only one direction for his etymologies
  For a while now, I have been noticing, to my displeasure, that the study of etymology - which ought to be a scholarly pursuit - is frequently motivated by a catch-all nationalism that seeks to ascribe as much as possible to a favoured language. For instance, in his recent DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL WELSH LEGEND, Peter Bartrum tries, disastrously, to ascribe the obviously English name Gwenfrewi (Winifred) to Welsh origins; which is total nonsense. The same is true of this otherwise pleasant work of reference,... more info

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