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What is a placename?

What is a placename? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The name of a place; a word or phrase which indicates a particular location or region.
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Scotia is a Latin placename derived from Scoti, a Latin name for the Gaels.
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One interpretation of the placename is that it means 'green river' as in the Welsh river named Irfon.
Wikipedia has a fuller, highly amusing list of counterintuitive placename pronunciations.
Surely a touch more imagination is available in this place to deal with the legacy of a past where we can't even agree on a placename.
In the meantime, wood was more likely to be seen as a word in an ancient placename than on the ground.

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