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A Glimpse through a Dirty Window into an Unlit House: Names of Some North-West European Islands
(York University, 2009)
It is well known that many of the major island-names of the archipelago consisting politically of Ireland,
the United Kingdom and Crown dependencies are etymologically obscure. In this paper, I present and
analyse a ...
A Natural History of Proper Naming in the Context of Emerging Mass Production: The Case of British Railway Locomotives before 1846
(York University, 2009)
The early history of railway locomotives in Britain is marked by two striking facts. The first is that many
were given proper names, even where there was no objective need to distinguish them in such a way. The
second ...