#Placenames
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mysteriosox.bsky.social
Off topic, but one of Britain's best placenames there
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
deeholloway.bsky.social
driving around the Capital Region pronouncing Dutch placenames like incantations
whippoorwont.bsky.social tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · Sep 14
The Hound is one of Lovecraft's funniest stories because it's about how terrifying it would be if the undead abomination hunting you spoke Dutch
Extinguishing all lights, we proceeded to the door and threw it suddenly open; whereupon we felt an unaccountable rush of air, and heard as if receding far away a queer combination of rustling, tittering, and articulate chatter. Whether we were mad, dreaming, or in our senses, we did not try to determine. We only realised, with the blackest of apprehensions, that the apparently disembodied chatter was beyond a doubt in the Dutch language. After that we lived in growing horror and fascination.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
beckeegan.bsky.social
I left AoNZ as a kid in '77 when 99% of the placenames were Euro; came back 2001 and I *learnt*the*Māori*names* because that's what they are.
I'm in my 50's. There are MANY words, technologies, concepts, that didn't even exist when I was born. Don't be an arse; just learn the words. Use them.
thoughtfulnz.bsky.social David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 3d
#30DayMapchallenge Day 8, Urban.

People don't realise what a big deal it is for acceptance of place names to change in such a short time without wars/dictators/invasion/etc. Just people, within a generation, deciding it is the right thing to do. mapdata::NZHires baseman + Affinity Publisher.
Aotearoa major cities
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
whatgoodrnotebooks.bsky.social
Maybe it's a decent tour of the less famous reduplicated placenames... Boston to New York, but it's the ones in Lincolnshire, sort of thing.
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
joesaunders1.bsky.social
Never say the English aren't inventive with our placenames. Gardeners Garden, Shoreditch, London (Ogilby & Morgan map, 1676). 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
prehistoricwirral.bsky.social
📑📖Word of the Week: 'Chenoterie' French meaning 'oak clearing'. The original place name for Noctorum, Wirral. First recorded in the Domesday Book and used ever since 🌳🌳🌳https://prehistoricwirral.com/noctorum.html #Wirral #History #Heritage #placenames #Noctorum #Chenoterie #Domesday
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
jhilden.bsky.social
But who’d do French placenames with Finnish spelling
jmkorhonen.fi Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 11d
What it would look like if Finnish followed French orthography. 
As someone who probably still goes as Mrs. Yanne in some French records, this somehow breaks my brain :D.

(BTW still bigly mad that literary Finnish wasn't codified based on Savo dialect. It would've been gloriously silly.)
What it would look like if Finnish followed French orthography. A map of Finland, showing the provinces and their capital cities, written in French orthography. For example, Lappi is La Pyil and Rovaniemi Rauvanne-Nyllémy; Helsinki is Elsinequi and Uusimaa is Ousimaex.
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
maptiler.bsky.social
We’ve spun a 🕸️ web map 🕸️ of haunted placenames here: maptiler.link/48TD6EK
#Halloween #Cartography #SpookyMaps #WebMaps
Halloween map
Spooky Halloween map with custom icons for the scariest names.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ainmean-aite.bsky.social
Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
Baile Obar Dheathain ~ Aberdeen

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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Very excited to be chatting with @drmjwarren.bsky.social about his wonderful book THE CUCKOO'S LEA, on 13th November in Crediton - we'll be discussing lost species remembered in placenames, rekindling wonder, & spirits of place.

Get tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cre...
October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
deptrcdg.bsky.social
With Oireachtas na Gaeilge taking place in Belfast this week, the Placenames Branch has looked at the topic of the placename Béal Feirste.

To find out more about the origins of the name visit https://loom.ly/4lPtS-U
Image of Belfast
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
sdunungan.org
Hey, @ghostofagony.bsky.social
The top pic from our deck.

People call it Mt. Si, but to the Snoqualmie People he is called qʷalbc and is a hugely important historical and cultural site.

#indigenous #placenames
#twinpeaks #Snoqualmie
October 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
ainmean-aite.bsky.social
Ainm-àite na Seachdaine
Strathpeffer ~ Stath Pheofhair 'valley of the river Peffery'
NH482582

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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic#CoilltearachdagusFearannAlba #ForestryandLandScotland
October 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
ainmean-aite.bsky.social
Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
NàdarAlba ~ NatureScot
Tèarmainn Nàdair Nàiseanta ~ National Nature Reserves

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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #NatureScot
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
patrickjmb.bsky.social
Great listen - 61,000 townlands mapped a project to It was a project of great technical ambition, the politics, the placenames, and the legacy the OS left behind.

Now the current project to locate and protect benchmarks.

#SpeirGhorm
#RTEradio1

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The History Show Sunday 19 October 2025
The Ordnance Survey in Ireland On this week's programme, we’re looking back at the early years of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland. Just over 200 years ago, the British government launched one of the ...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
letslearnirish.bsky.social
An Chailleach is the archetype of the old wise woman, Grandmother to all and queen of the dark half of the year. Her name appears in various placenames, including special sacred sites such as Sliabh na Calliagh, 'the hill of the veiled one'

Read more at LetsLearnIrish.com/articles/anchailleach/
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
feefeecee.bsky.social
... Nonetheless, we love the Poles and they have placenames everywhere in our wide brown land. Not least the Strzelecki Track, and one of Australia's absolute top comedic characters shares that name.
a fat man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and a blue shirt on .
Alt: Australian actor Magda Szubanski in her famous Sharon Strezlecki role, crying.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
phrozen.com
Lexington, KT, Chicago, Portland, Anchorage, Fairbanks.
Nome, shishmsref, Deering, Quartz Creek
Kotzebue, Kivalina, Noatak, Kiana

Iguchak and Baldwin aren’t airports, just placenames.
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
theguardian.com
People submit Welsh placenames to project to protect linguistic heritage
People submit Welsh placenames to project to protect linguistic heritage
Entries include Welsh language names for fields and hills in move to ensure preservation of stories and legends Dozens of placenames in Welsh, some hinting at ancient legends, others telling rich stories of how people used to live, have been submitted to a project designed to make sure they are preserved. The Welsh government appealed for people to add historical names that may be missing from online maps so they could be saved for future generations. Within two weeks, about 200 submissions were received, including local Welsh language names for fields, hills and areas. Dôl y Tylwyth Teg (Fairy Folk Meadow/Fairies’ Meadow) in Aberfan, south Wales. The person who sent the suggestion said the field was known by the Welsh name by people who spoke Cymraeg, the Welsh language. A nearby school that teaches through Welsh refers to the field by this name and uses it for events. Caeau Maelorddin (Fields of Maelor City) near Aberystwyth, west Wales, are a collection of fields near Tanybwlch beach. The contributor said his late grandfather recalled many people referring to a group of now individually named fields as Caeau Maelorddin. They were close to Pen Dinas, the hill where the giant Maelor Gawr was said to live. Ffynnon Glog (Rock Well) near Rhyd, in Gwynedd, north Wales, is a hidden well in a roadside bank, according to the contributor. The water in the well was once used as a remedy for ailments and takes its name from Y Glog, a prominent rocky outcrop nearby. Continue reading...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
irishacw.bsky.social
The latest episode of Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast is live! In this show Fin and I explore Irish placenames in America- from Vinegar Hill to Menlo Park, and Dublin Gulch to Roscommon County-with a quick visit to Glendalough State Park thrown in! shows.acast.com/transatlanti...
Irish Placenames in the USA | Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast
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October 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
janejanealogy.bsky.social
Contacts on NRS Advisory Panel are happy to hear from you @corrina.sheshed.rocks @dgplacenames.bsky.social They don’t know of anyone w a placenames focus on the panel.
October 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ainmean-aite.bsky.social
Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
Siorrachd Chlach Mhanann ~ Clackmannanshire

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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
Maps
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October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
shroomgirl.bsky.social
ON grind ‘gate’ occurs in many #Orkney #PlaceNames incl. Dyke of Grind (Egilsay), Grind (North Ronaldsay & Stronsay), Grindaly (Stronsay) & Grindlays Breck (Rousay). The last 2 seem to contain hlíð ‘slope’, the latter also with ON brekka ‘slope’ or perhaps Scots breck (since hlíð appears forgotten)
Grindlay's Breck, Rousay. Colour photo of a croft on a slope.
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
asls.org.uk
A Curious Episode at Balquhidder: Placenames in the North & the Nackens
28 Oct @scotstorycentre.bsky.social – free, ticketed

Dr Robert Fell on how the folklore of Nackens (Scottish Gypsy Travellers) can give insights into Scotland’s history & place names
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Talks & Lectures A Curious Episode at Balquhidder: Placenames in the North and the Nackens Alan Bruford Memorial Lecture 2025 (Tue 28 Oct: 6pm) Scottish place names and their origins are important. Join Dr Robert Fell to hear about the perspectives of Nackens (Scottish Gypsy Travellers) and how their folklore can give us unique insights into Scotland’s history and her place names. With special guest Shamus McPhee, who recounts a curious episode from Highland Perthshire that gave Balquhidder its name. Presented in memory of Scottish scholar Alan Bruford, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies.
October 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
mapcenter.com
Anyway. I've partnered with @decolonialatlas.bsky.social to distribute their incredible map of North America from an Indigenous perspective with all placenames in the native language. Paper ones sold at cost. www.mapcenter.com/store/p/turt...
Turtle Island Decolonized — The Map Center
Every map instantly creates two types of people: those who make the maps and those that are mapped. Every map represents a world view and a perspective and I’m so delighted to offer this piece that sh...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM