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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: how maps name, claim, and inflame
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: how maps name, claim, and inflame
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Monmonier, Mark S
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
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Naming and mapping
The quest for a national gazetteer
Purging pejoratives
Body parts and risqué toponyms
Going native
Your toponym or mine?
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Epilogue : naming rites.
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English language -- Etymology -- Names
English language -- Obscene words
Etymology
Names
Names, Geographical
Names, Geographical -- Etymology
Names, Geographical -- United States -- Etymology
Obscene words
Toponymy
Words, Obscene
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ProQuest (Firm)
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9780226534657
9780226534640
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