Peter Dowling talks with Kathryn Ryan about the new book
New Zealand Place Names: Common, Contested and Curious Names from Aotearoa to Zalatown
Listen to the interview on RNZ:
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
#oratiabooks #newzealand #aotearoa #toponomy @nzgeo.bsky.social @nzjh.bsky.social #RNZ
New Zealand Place Names: Common, Contested and Curious Names from Aotearoa to Zalatown
Listen to the interview on RNZ:
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
#oratiabooks #newzealand #aotearoa #toponomy @nzgeo.bsky.social @nzjh.bsky.social #RNZ
Curious and contested Kiwi placenames
A new book unpacks how 850 of our placenames came about.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Peter Dowling talks with Kathryn Ryan about the new book
New Zealand Place Names: Common, Contested and Curious Names from Aotearoa to Zalatown
Listen to the interview on RNZ:
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
#oratiabooks #newzealand #aotearoa #toponomy @nzgeo.bsky.social @nzjh.bsky.social #RNZ
New Zealand Place Names: Common, Contested and Curious Names from Aotearoa to Zalatown
Listen to the interview on RNZ:
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
#oratiabooks #newzealand #aotearoa #toponomy @nzgeo.bsky.social @nzjh.bsky.social #RNZ
For some weird reason the Toponomy section in the Weston-super-Mare wiki page is written in the first person voice of a stuffy old British schoolmaster. It’s rather charming, but it also takes 3 very long paragraphs to get to the 1300s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston-...
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
For some weird reason the Toponomy section in the Weston-super-Mare wiki page is written in the first person voice of a stuffy old British schoolmaster. It’s rather charming, but it also takes 3 very long paragraphs to get to the 1300s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston-...
Montréal will have soon removed the last pieces of the name "Amherst" on its toponomy. The Square Amherst St will be renamed Pain-et-des-Roses Place.
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Montréal aura bientôt retiré les derniers restants du nom « Amherst » de sa toponymie. La rue du Square-Amherst […]
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Montréal aura bientôt retiré les derniers restants du nom « Amherst » de sa toponymie. La rue du Square-Amherst […]
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June 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Montréal will have soon removed the last pieces of the name "Amherst" on its toponomy. The Square Amherst St will be renamed Pain-et-des-Roses Place.
// Article in French //
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Montréal aura bientôt retiré les derniers restants du nom « Amherst » de sa toponymie. La rue du Square-Amherst […]
// Article in French //
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Montréal aura bientôt retiré les derniers restants du nom « Amherst » de sa toponymie. La rue du Square-Amherst […]
🇵🇱🐐🌉 Every instance of guerrilla toponomy at Google Maps brings a smile to my face, such as somebody labelling the newest foot/bike bridges in Poznań as "Professor Lech Wałęsa Bridges". Wałęsa is not a professor, and these bridges aren't named after him, but it has been a few weeks already like this.
June 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🇵🇱🐐🌉 Every instance of guerrilla toponomy at Google Maps brings a smile to my face, such as somebody labelling the newest foot/bike bridges in Poznań as "Professor Lech Wałęsa Bridges". Wałęsa is not a professor, and these bridges aren't named after him, but it has been a few weeks already like this.
of most place names nowadays.
Thus, I think, Chaker’s observation of a lack of substrate toponomy can partly be explained by observation bias (only looking at the names that are understood) and partly by historical erasure of such names at a relatively late period.
Thus, I think, Chaker’s observation of a lack of substrate toponomy can partly be explained by observation bias (only looking at the names that are understood) and partly by historical erasure of such names at a relatively late period.
May 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
of most place names nowadays.
Thus, I think, Chaker’s observation of a lack of substrate toponomy can partly be explained by observation bias (only looking at the names that are understood) and partly by historical erasure of such names at a relatively late period.
Thus, I think, Chaker’s observation of a lack of substrate toponomy can partly be explained by observation bias (only looking at the names that are understood) and partly by historical erasure of such names at a relatively late period.
Sorry your link is broken, I couldn't check what it says. So you are saying that there was a toponomy around 1500 AD that refers to the continental land west of Europe and Africa and West to Asia that was called America, but now "American" refers only to a subdivision of it. That is brave
May 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Sorry your link is broken, I couldn't check what it says. So you are saying that there was a toponomy around 1500 AD that refers to the continental land west of Europe and Africa and West to Asia that was called America, but now "American" refers only to a subdivision of it. That is brave
Pronounce and understand Māori place names!
Māori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins, also available as an ebook: www.oratia.co.nz/product/maor...
#māori #māoriplacenames ##māoribooks #reomāori #oratiabooks #awreed #peterdowling #toponomy @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social @nzgeo.bsky.social
Māori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins, also available as an ebook: www.oratia.co.nz/product/maor...
#māori #māoriplacenames ##māoribooks #reomāori #oratiabooks #awreed #peterdowling #toponomy @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social @nzgeo.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Pronounce and understand Māori place names!
Māori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins, also available as an ebook: www.oratia.co.nz/product/maor...
#māori #māoriplacenames ##māoribooks #reomāori #oratiabooks #awreed #peterdowling #toponomy @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social @nzgeo.bsky.social
Māori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins, also available as an ebook: www.oratia.co.nz/product/maor...
#māori #māoriplacenames ##māoribooks #reomāori #oratiabooks #awreed #peterdowling #toponomy @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social @nzgeo.bsky.social
Your president is a Russian asset surrounded by nazis but all you have to complain about is the price of eggs and toponomy?
February 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Your president is a Russian asset surrounded by nazis but all you have to complain about is the price of eggs and toponomy?
The rating aren't for whether people liked the name. It is the number of points the name got when the criteria that were chosen as important were applied to the suggested names. A committee of toponomy, geography and history experts applied them. Here are the criteria:
February 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The rating aren't for whether people liked the name. It is the number of points the name got when the criteria that were chosen as important were applied to the suggested names. A committee of toponomy, geography and history experts applied them. Here are the criteria:
Is this not one of the most kick-ass scientific visualizations you've ever seen? It's a periodic table, and the first thing to note is it's a left step periodic table. But most strikingly, electronegativity is shown as a contour map, with toponomy inspired by physical maps. Brilliant.
#PeriodicTable
#PeriodicTable
February 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Is this not one of the most kick-ass scientific visualizations you've ever seen? It's a periodic table, and the first thing to note is it's a left step periodic table. But most strikingly, electronegativity is shown as a contour map, with toponomy inspired by physical maps. Brilliant.
#PeriodicTable
#PeriodicTable
One striking difference between the toponomy of 🇨🇦 vs 🇺🇲 is the almost total absence of Biblical and Classical placenames in 🇨🇦.
Upstate NY is full of Greece+Rome from Syracuse to Pompey, but we've also got Romulus+Delphi, MI, Carthage, MO/MS, Antioch, CA, Athens, GA, etc.
ANY at all in Canada? 🤔
Upstate NY is full of Greece+Rome from Syracuse to Pompey, but we've also got Romulus+Delphi, MI, Carthage, MO/MS, Antioch, CA, Athens, GA, etc.
ANY at all in Canada? 🤔
January 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
One striking difference between the toponomy of 🇨🇦 vs 🇺🇲 is the almost total absence of Biblical and Classical placenames in 🇨🇦.
Upstate NY is full of Greece+Rome from Syracuse to Pompey, but we've also got Romulus+Delphi, MI, Carthage, MO/MS, Antioch, CA, Athens, GA, etc.
ANY at all in Canada? 🤔
Upstate NY is full of Greece+Rome from Syracuse to Pompey, but we've also got Romulus+Delphi, MI, Carthage, MO/MS, Antioch, CA, Athens, GA, etc.
ANY at all in Canada? 🤔
Toponomy matters "Google said the changes - for both Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali - will be made "quickly" [for US customers] once the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Is Google Maps changing Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America?
It is the firm's "longstanding practice" to observe updates from official sources - in this case requested by Donald Trump.
www.bbc.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Toponomy matters "Google said the changes - for both Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali - will be made "quickly" [for US customers] once the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated" www.bbc.com/news/article...
72) MOUNT PLEASANT (M)
Mount Pleasant station at the junction of Kingsway, Broadway, and Main that is kind of the core of Mount Pleasant is unarguably well named with a widely used and accurate piece of toponomy
A+
Mount Pleasant station at the junction of Kingsway, Broadway, and Main that is kind of the core of Mount Pleasant is unarguably well named with a widely used and accurate piece of toponomy
A+
January 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
72) MOUNT PLEASANT (M)
Mount Pleasant station at the junction of Kingsway, Broadway, and Main that is kind of the core of Mount Pleasant is unarguably well named with a widely used and accurate piece of toponomy
A+
Mount Pleasant station at the junction of Kingsway, Broadway, and Main that is kind of the core of Mount Pleasant is unarguably well named with a widely used and accurate piece of toponomy
A+
Friday in Dublin - Poems Made by Walking Workshop! i hope to see you, rsvp here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/forms-and-features-workshop-tickets-737845665247
November 11, 2023 at 5:09 PM
Friday in Dublin - Poems Made by Walking Workshop! i hope to see you, rsvp here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/forms-and-features-workshop-tickets-737845665247
Here's a project that was fun and challenging to work on, and it's good to see the end result online - and if anyone gets to see the Toponomy exhibition in Quebec City, let me know! Text by Julia von Lucadou, tr. by me: quebecvilledelitterature.ca/fr/toponymie...
Norwich, Heidelberg, Quebec
Norwich, Heidelberg, Quebec
September 15, 2023 at 10:41 AM
Here's a project that was fun and challenging to work on, and it's good to see the end result online - and if anyone gets to see the Toponomy exhibition in Quebec City, let me know! Text by Julia von Lucadou, tr. by me: quebecvilledelitterature.ca/fr/toponymie...
Norwich, Heidelberg, Quebec
Norwich, Heidelberg, Quebec
Love my stem mutuals like idk whats a toponomy but go girl go
July 13, 2023 at 10:31 PM
Love my stem mutuals like idk whats a toponomy but go girl go
#Secwepemc Geographic: Pelltsqwmus - No One Left to Bury The Dead - Carl Archie http://www.carlarchie.com/1/post/2018/06/secwepemc-geographic-pelltsqwmus-no-one-left-to-bury-the-dead.html
#Secwepemculecw #Indigenous #Geography #Toponomy
#Secwepemculecw #Indigenous #Geography #Toponomy
November 22, 2024 at 10:32 AM
#Secwepemc Geographic: Pelltsqwmus - No One Left to Bury The Dead - Carl Archie http://www.carlarchie.com/1/post/2018/06/secwepemc-geographic-pelltsqwmus-no-one-left-to-bury-the-dead.html
#Secwepemculecw #Indigenous #Geography #Toponomy
#Secwepemculecw #Indigenous #Geography #Toponomy
November 22, 2024 at 10:45 AM