But who’d do French placenames with Finnish spelling
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.)
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.)
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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We’ve spun a 🕸️ web map 🕸️ of haunted placenames here: maptiler.link/48TD6EK
#Halloween #Cartography #SpookyMaps #WebMaps
#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
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👻 Happy Halloween from MapTiler! 🎃
We’ve brewed up something spooky for #map lovers: creepy icons on placenames that scream Halloween — bats, pumpkins, devils, & more.
Explore… if you dare, the link is in the first reply!
#Halloween #Cartography #SpookyMaps #WebMaps
We’ve brewed up something spooky for #map lovers: creepy icons on placenames that scream Halloween — bats, pumpkins, devils, & more.
Explore… if you dare, the link is in the first reply!
#Halloween #Cartography #SpookyMaps #WebMaps
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Primary gave me the grounding in how the language is pronounced I think, which is important in decoding placenames and sound systems in Hiberno-English ( 4eg why we use the broad Irish T for TH etc) Also Old Irish is important as many anglicised names are fossilised Old/Middle Irish.
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I also did it to LC but I hated it with a vengeance (liked it in Primary because of a native speaker teacher who clearly loved it). I decided to re-learn because I had a need, I'm interested in placenames and Hiberno-English dialects. Mastered the noun system not sure if I'll go any further.
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
Baile Obar Dheathain ~ Aberdeen
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps
Baile Obar Dheathain ~ Aberdeen
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October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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
To find out more about the origins of the name visit https://loom.ly/4lPtS-U
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Hi Brendan - using DNA areas will not really assist you at this stage of your research. There are 27 CS's born in Killarney born between 1869 & 1872. The Irish placenames are not consistent & may be a townland or a parrish (in different places altogether!
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Scottish Storytelling Centre spotlights Nacken folklore
https://www.europesays.com/uk/535879/
Titled “A Curious Episode of Balquidder: Placenames in the North and Nackens,” Fell wove a narrative to give…#uk #news #uknews
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Titled “A Curious Episode of Balquidder: Placenames in the North and Nackens,” Fell wove a narrative to give…#uk #news #uknews
Scottish Storytelling Centre spotlights Nacken folklore - United Kingdom
But why is it important?
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October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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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.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Eileamaid na seachdaine
Sròm "current;stream"
Thoir dhuinn ainm sròim a tha a' còrdadh ribh!
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic
Sròm "current;stream"
Thoir dhuinn ainm sròim a tha a' còrdadh ribh!
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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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
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
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People have occasionally asked me if I just scroll through placenames all day and while yes, admittedly, I do sometimes do that, I found this one by perusing a map for the funniest-sounding set of twin border towns on the Irish-Northern Irish border for an article about pigeons.
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Ainm-àite na Seachdaine
Strathpeffer ~ Stath Pheofhair 'valley of the river Peffery'
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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
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Shortest placenames in Scotland:
Ì
Ae
Bu
Ì
Ae
Bu
October 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The very word "america" is Hispanic, many placenames around the US are Hispanic, French, Native, and many 'English' placenames are taken from the UK of which are derived from many european languages, but I suppose history is not their strongpoint, nor is education, or listening to fact...
October 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Isn't that the prefix of the placenames where most Libpewlfubbubub supporters come from? 😁
October 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Back after the break for: Ellie Rye (University York) and Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhghaill (Placenames Branch, Dublin), 'Ad Saltum Salmonis: a name from abroad, but is Leixlip English or Norse?'
October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Windsor Great Park. But who will forget those interstitials where Saxon placenames dissolve into English. And thusly we learned that Eoferwic = York, Wintanceaster = Winchester, Aegelsburg = Aylesbury – and of course Lundene (bless!) = London. I tell you, by the end I was fluent in Old English
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October 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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yes, this is actually the case for a lot of english placenames that end in -which or -wick! most likely the W was pronounced at some point and dropped out of usage over time, this is called elision and it happens a ton in regular speech, sometimes to the extent that the official pronunciation shifts
October 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Mapa Gàidhlig na Seachdaine
NàdarAlba ~ NatureScot
Tèarmainn Nàdair Nàiseanta ~ National Nature Reserves
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #NatureScot
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
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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/
Read more at LetsLearnIrish.com/articles/anchailleach/
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Poll an Phúca i gCill Mhantáin
Pollaphuca Wicklow
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'the hole, pool of the pooka'
púca = a goblin, sprite
ainbheithíoch, taibhse; púca na sméar
Téama na seachtaine:
Chugat an púca!
'Púca' in placenames, a researcher’s nightmare
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Pollaphuca Wicklow
logainm.ie/ga/113024
'the hole, pool of the pooka'
púca = a goblin, sprite
ainbheithíoch, taibhse; púca na sméar
Téama na seachtaine:
Chugat an púca!
'Púca' in placenames, a researcher’s nightmare
logainm.ie/en/themes/132
October 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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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.
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Now the current project to locate and protect benchmarks.
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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
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... 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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