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  2. Loiner - Wikipedia

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    The term Leeds Loiner was included by Joseph Wright, a native of nearby Windhill and Wrose, in the English Dialect Dictionary. The definition was "An inhabitant of Leeds". The entry suggests that the origin is linked to Marsh Lane in Leeds. [4]

  3. Tyrone (name) - Wikipedia

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    Tyrone is a male given name of Irish origin. The name originates from the toponym County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, which in turn derives from the Irish language Tír Eoghain ("land of Eoghan"). [1] [2] Tír Eoghain was the name of a Gaelic kingdom of Medieval Ireland. Eoghan is variant of Eógan and Owen, or the Scottish Ewan. [3]

  4. Anglicisation of names - Wikipedia

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    When Lushootseed names were integrated into English, they were often recorded and pronounced very differently. An example of this is Chief Seattle. The name Seattle is an anglicisation of the modern Duwamish conventional spelling Si'ahl, equivalent to the modern Lushootseed spelling siʔaɫ Salishan pronunciation: [ˈsiʔaːɬ].

  5. List of words derived from toponyms - Wikipedia

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    Bedlam — meaning pandemonium, after popular name/pronunciation of St Mary of Bethlehem, London's first psychiatric hospital ; Bedlington Terrier, a breed of dog, after Bedlington, UK; bezant — former gold coin, and current heraldic charge, after Byzantium (now Istanbul), where the coins were made

  6. Lin (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Lin (; Chinese: 林; pinyin: Lín) is the Mandarin romanization of the Chinese surname written 林, which has many variations depending on the language and is also used in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (as Im), Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia.

  7. Gallagher (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Outside Ireland, the pronunciation is often altered to /ˈɡæləˌɡər/ in Britain and the USA. The name Gallagher is an anglicization of the Irish surname Ó Gallchobhair , Ó Gallchobhoir (or two alternative spelling forms, Ó Gallchóir and Ó Gallachóir ), these being masculine forms; the corresponding feminine forms are Ní ...

  8. Line (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Line is a female given name, most common in the Nordic countries Denmark and Norway. It may be a short form of names which end in -line, like Caroline. It may be a short form of names which end in -line, like Caroline.

  9. Carew (surname) - Wikipedia

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    There the name has occasionally been used interchangeably, in records such as the 'Patent Rolls', with the indigenous Cary of the West Country, causing confusion. It has been claimed that 'Carey' is a variant of Carew in Cornwall, [3] (neither name there is numerous). However, this claim seems to be based on the Carew family of Antony being ...