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Wirral revisited

Coates, Richard

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This article has two goals. The first is to document fully the recurrent English place-name Wirral and a number of similar ones which can be shown, in some cases definitely, in others probably or possibly, to have the same origin, as well as others which appear to have the same first element. The second is to re-interrogate the widely accepted meaning of the Old English word wīr which is, beyond reasonable doubt, the first element of the name, because the grounds for the general belief that it denotes the shrub known as bog myrtle or sweet gale (Myrica gale) have not yet been properly explored.

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2013
Deposit Date Sep 14, 2015
Publicly Available Date Feb 10, 2016
Journal Nomina
Print ISSN 0141-6340
Publisher Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 36
Pages 75-105
Keywords Wirral, names, Engliah place names
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/937614
Publisher URL http://www.snsbi.org.uk/Nomina.html
Contract Date Feb 10, 2016

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