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Usenet Posted 23 years ago
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Is there a word for the practice of naming a place after a person (e.g. Georgia, Karl Marx Stadt) ?

-- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) dphillipson(at)trytel.com
  

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g. [/nq] I'm not aware of one. If there isn't yet such a word, would you like to propose "phillipson"?

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  • [/nq] I'm not aware of one.
  • If there isn't yet such a word, would you like to propose "phillipson"?
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[nq:1]Is there a word for the practice of naming a place after a person (e.g. Georgia, Karl Marx Stadt) ?[/nq]
I'm not aware of one. If there isn't yet such a word, would you like to propose "phillipson"?

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[nq:2]Is there a word for the practice of naming a place after a person (e.g. Georgia, Karl Marx Stadt) ?[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm not aware of one. If there isn't yet such a word, would you like to propose "phillipson"?[/nq]
I propose "toponymycleptia."
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[nq:1]Is there a word for the practice of naming a place after a person (e.g. Georgia, Karl Marx Stadt) ?[/nq]
Eponymy.

Michael Hamm BA scl Math, PBK, NYU (Email Removed) Note new URL: http://www.math.wustl.edu/~msh210/
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