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A pronouncing dictionary of English place-names : including standard local and archaic variants

Title

A pronouncing dictionary of English place-names : including standard local and archaic variants / Klaus Forster.

Author

Forster, Klaus.

Publication

London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
©1981

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Description

xxxvi, 268 pages; 22 cm

Summary

This dictionary presents a collection of not only the standard or "official" pronunciations but also of local, dialectal and archaic forms of over 12,000 different English counties, towns, villages and farms, as well as natural features such as rivers and mountains and even street - names of some major cities such as London, Leeds and Bristol.

Subject

Genre/Form

dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Phonetisches Wörterbuch.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. [xiii]-xxxvi.

ISBN

0710007566
9780710007568

LCCN

80041300

OCLC

ocm07480980
7480980
SCSB-33054

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library