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A specific name serves to restrict or modify the meaning of the place-name. Most of the world’s languages can be divided into two groups based on the general tendency to have the specific either precede or follow the generic. In English the specific usually comes first,…
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A specific name serves to restrict or modify the meaning of the place-name. Most of the world’s languages can be divided into two groups based on the general tendency to have the specific either precede or follow the generic. In English the specific usually comes first,…
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