All Outputs (16)

Magiovinium, Dropshort Farm, near Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire (2015)
Journal Article

An investigation of this Romano-British place-name and possible Germanic analogues.

Family names of the United Kingdom (2014)
Other

Oundle, Northamptonshire (2014)
Journal Article

The name of Oundle, noted earliest as the death-place of St Wilfrid and later of St Cett, and as the burial-place of archbishop Wulfstan of York, has not received a fully satisfactory explanation, despite a wealth of early mentions.

Wirral revisited (2013)
Journal Article

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 w... Read More about Wirral revisited.

The traditional dialect of Sussex (2010)
Book

Part One consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 situates dialect, and dialect writing in particular, in relation to the history of the emergence of standard written English. Chapter 2 presents the contribution of academic linguists and philologists to... Read More about The traditional dialect of Sussex.

A place-name history of the parishes of Rottingdean and Ovingdean in Sussex (2010)
Book

The title is self-explanatory. Approximately 800 local names in the two parishes are discussed and explained.

A strictly Millian approach to the definition of the proper name (2009)
Journal Article

A strictly Millian approach to proper names is defended, i.e. one in which expressions when used properly ('onymically') refer directly, i.e. without the semantic intermediaryship of the words that appear to comprise them. The approach may appear sel... Read More about A strictly Millian approach to the definition of the proper name.

Reflections on some Lincolnshire major place-names, Part 2: Ness wapentake to Yarborough (2009)
Journal Article

Reflections on some Lincolnshire major place-names, Part 1: Algarkirk to Melton Ross (2008)
Journal Article

The name of the island of Annet, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall (2008)
Journal Article

Azure Mouse, Bloater Hill, Goose Puddings, and One Land called the Cow: Continuity and conundrums in Lincolnshire minor names (2007)
Journal Article

Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid (2006)
Journal Article

A submitted article in an onomastics journal, accepted without major revision, whose main thesis is that the place-name Maiden Castle, recurrent in Scotland and England, has its immediate origin in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He transposed it f... Read More about Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid.

Properhood (2006)
Journal Article

A submitted theoretical article, accepted without major revision. The novel ideas presented have emerged from the author's historical studies of proper names conducted over many years. It consists firstly of a forcible restatement of J.S. Mill's view... Read More about Properhood.

Names (2006)
Book Chapter

Commissioned chapter in one-volume survey of the history of English. This is the first work ever to pull together the history of all major types of namegiving in English. It has an introductory section covering linguistic and philosophical aspects of... Read More about Names.

Behind the dictionary-forms of Scandinavian elements in England (2006)
Journal Article

Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans (2005)
Journal Article

A submitted article in the principal journal of general Celtic scholarship, accepted without major revision, reviewing previous scholarship on this difficult Romano-British place-name and claiming that it meant, in British Celtic, 'place of a man nam... Read More about Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans.