All Outputs (51)

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

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

Bristol vocabulary: A provisional list (2014)
Other

A provisional list of vocabulary strongly connected with, or diagnostic of, the Bristol area.

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.

The name of the Hwicce: A discussion (2013)
Journal Article

This article presents the evidence for the Anglo-Saxon ethnic name Hwicce borne by a people of the south-west Midlands, and reviews previous unsatisfactory attempts to explain it. It appears to be probably of British Celtic origin, and an etymology i... Read More about The name of the Hwicce: A discussion.

Rethinking Romano-British corinium (2013)
Journal Article

It is suggested that the name generally accepted as the Romano-British name of Cirencester, Corinium, the traditional spelling deriving from a Latin rendering of that in Ptolemy's Geography, is mistaken, and that for philologically sound reasons the... Read More about Rethinking Romano-British corinium.

The name of the state of Maine: An Irish perspective (2013)
Journal Article

The three current theories of the origin of the name of the American state of Maine are reviewed and rejected. The connection of the colonist Sir Ferdinando Gorges with Ireland is explored, and a possible origin is proposed in the circumstances of th... Read More about The name of the state of Maine: An Irish perspective.

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.

"Agricultural" compound terms and names in tun like Acton and Barton (2012)
Book Chapter

A toponomastic contribution to the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles (2012)
Journal Article

It is well known that some of the major island-names of the archipelago consisting politically of the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the UK Crown Dependencies are etymologically obscure. In this paper, I present and cautiously analyse a... Read More about A toponomastic contribution to the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles.

Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present a major new research project in surname studies in Britain. The project is called Family Names of the United Kingdom (abbreviated to FaNUK). It is a 4-year project based at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics in the University of the West o... Read More about Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics.

Some consequences and critiques of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (2011)
Journal Article

In several recent papers (Coates 2005a, 2005b, 2006a) I have suggested an approach to name theory which I have called a pragmatic theory of properhood, or, if I may elevate the descriptive phrase iconically into a proper name, The Pragmatic Theory of... Read More about Some consequences and critiques of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood.

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 major Lincolnshire place-names, part 2: Ness wapentake to Yarborough (2009)
Journal Article

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

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

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

Locus focus: Forum of the Sussex Place-Names Net 1996-2007 (2007)
Other

Locus focus: newsletter (later forum) of the Sussex Place-Names Net was a roughly biannual periodical edited by Richard Coates at the University of Sussex between 1996 and 2002, with a final issue covering 2003-2007 produced at UWE Bristol. Fourteen... Read More about Locus focus: Forum of the Sussex Place-Names Net 1996-2007.