Names for small bodies of water and small valleys

[Grant Barrett]

On Aug 4, 2008, at 13:58, RonButters at aol.com wrote:

> Some of these terms were of interest to dialectologists 50 years ago
> and more. They published on this stuff, too.

Right you are, though I find the approach taken by Mr. Fly to be
interesting because he has taken a publicly available database and
mined it for information in a simple way that produces good results
without his own fieldwork.

Here are a few related works that come to light with a quick JSTOR
search, though no doubt there are more to be found.

"Dialectal Evidence in the Place-Names of Eastern New York." Edward E.
Hale. American Speech, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Dec., 1929), pp. 154-167

"Observations on American Place-Name Grammar." James B. McMillan.
American Speech, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Dec., 1949), pp. 241-248

"Onomastic Dialects." W. F. H. Nicolaisen. American Speech, Vol. 55,
No. 1 (Spring, 1980), pp. 36-45

"On the Eastern Affiliations of Missouri Speech." George B. Pace.
American Speech, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Feb., 1965), pp. 47-52

"The Place Names of Tioga County, Pennsylvania." William Peirce
Randel. American Speech, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Oct., 1939), pp. 181-190

"Some Problems in the Distribution of Generic Terms in the Place--
Names of the Northeastern United States." Wilbur Zelinsky. Annals of
the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Dec., 1955),
pp. 319-349.

"Topographic Terms in Virginia." George Davis McJimsey. American
Speech, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Feb., 1940), pp. 3-38

"Topographic Terms in Virginia (II)." George Davis McJimsey. American
Speech, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr., 1940), pp. 149-179

"Topographic Terms in Virginia (III)." George Davis McJimsey. American
Speech, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Oct., 1940), pp. 262-300

"Topographic Terms in Virginia (IV)." George Davis McJimsey. American
Speech, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Dec., 1940), pp. 381-419

"Topographical Terms in the Seventeenth-Century Records of Connecticut
and Rhode Island." Clarice E. Tyler. The New England Quarterly, Vol.
2, No. 3 (Jul., 1929), pp. 382-401

_Columbia County Place Names._ Walter M Brasch. Columbia County
Historical Society. 1982

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