Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The list of standardised Welsh place-names is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also recommended to be matched with the Welsh.
place, small stream Lockinge [53] suffix difficult to distinguish from -ingas without examination of early place-name forms. inver, inner [5] SG mouth of (a river), confluence, a meeting of waters Inverness, Inveraray, Innerleithen: prefix cf. aber. keld ON spring Keld, Threlkeld [54] keth, cheth C wood Penketh, Culcheth [27] suffix cf. W. coed ...
Obvious examples of place-names of Welsh origin include Penrith ("headland by the ford" [2]) and the numerous Rivers Avon, from the Welsh afon ("river"). Place-names from the Western Brittonic-speaking Hen Ogledd occur in Cumbria and the Scottish Lowlands. These include the name of Edinburgh, from Cumbric Din Eidin "Eidin's Fort".
Fifty-five boroughs in Wales were given parliamentary representation in 1536, but the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 recognised only 20 Welsh boroughs [citation needed]. Subsequent urban growth led to the designation of other places as boroughs, including Wrexham , Rhondda , Barry and Merthyr Tydfil , but many other settlements were only ...
A place in Idaho, which shares a name with a similarly named place in Indonesia. Let the dogs chew over that one ... Boquete: A town in Panama. "Boquete" is a Portuguese term that means "blowjob". Boston, Kyrgyzstan: A city named Boston, on almost the exact other side of the world from the other Boston. Booti Booti: Australian National park ...
It played a three-hour commercial-free video loop of flaming wood, accompanied by holiday music, to serve as a “Christmas card to our viewers,” according to a history of the “Yule Log ...
We're not going to lie -- this game is hard. You're only given fifteen minutes to find as many bunnies as you can across all of the locations, not to mention they don't stay in the same place if ...
Evidence for a Celtic root to place names in England is widely strengthened by early monastic charters, chronicles and returns: examples relate to Leatherhead and Lichfield. To describe a place as of the Celts, the Old English wealh becoming Wal/Wall/Welsh is often used.