Scotland's
Place-names
Scotland's
Place-names David Dorward’s earlier book on Scottish
place-names has long been popular. It makes the subject accessible
to the general reader, with explanations of names that are
clear and concise, and often witty. This new, greatly expanded
version of Scotland’s Place-names goes much further.
It explores the subject in far greater depth and explains
hundreds more names. The style, however, is the same—readable
and entertaining, as well as educational. It is a mine of
information for the enquiring schoolchild, the hill-walker
or mountaineer, the local historian—everyone, in fact,
who has ever wondered about the origins of the marvellous
variety of place-names in Scotland.
This
is more than just a dictionary, though almost any name you
can think of will be found here. Parts of names are traced
back to their Celtic, Gaelic or Old English roots, so that
it becomes possible for readers to unravel for themselves
the meanings of hundreds of local area and landscape names.
The detective work leads into fascinating by-ways. Anyone
who looks up one name will be led irresistibly on to explore
more deeply, so that the book becomes difficult to put down.
As well as meanings, David Dorward gives the correct pronunciation
of Scottish names.
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