| These are looked up in a gazetteer, a place-name dictionary with over 10m entries, which knows, for example, that the Statue of Liberty is in New York. |
| Ealing's name derives from the Saxon place-name Gillingas. |
| The reply is that the Old English scop may not have regarded it as a place-name. |
| A specific name serves to restrict or modify the meaning of the place-name. |
| A person will listen to the place-name spoken and then phonetically render the place-name in his or her own language, creating at best a close approximation. |
| The City of Chicago is an example of the prepositional place-name, but in common use the preposition and the generic are dropped. |
