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“-wick/-wich”: Salt, Trading, or Bay? How to Tell Which One You’re Reading
Some place names behave like tiny locked doors, and -wick and -wich are t…
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“-stow” vs “-stead”: Two Old English Endings People Confuse
Some place-name endings look so harmless that they slip past you like a cat t…
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Loanword Layers: How Indigenous Words Entered English Place Names Through French, Not Directly
You have seen the names a hundred times: Illinois, Mississippi, Detroit, Ch…
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