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  • Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba / Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland
  • English Place-Name Society
  • Journal of Scottish Name Studies
  • International Council of Onomastic Sciences
  • REELS (Berwickshire Place-Name Project)
  • Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
  • Cateran Trail Place-Name Booklets Edit

BOOKS FROM SPNS

In the Beginning was the Name
Selected Essays by Professor W.F.H. Nicolaisen
393 pages; price £9.99 plus P&P.

For details of this wide-ranging selection of essays by a pre-eminent scholar, and how to order it, please CLICK HERE.

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Cultural Contacts in the North Atlantic Region: The Evidence of Names
edited by Peder Gammeltoft, Carole Hough and Doreen Waugh

To clear remaining stocks, the price of this volume is now £5.00, plus £2.50 postage and packing (UK only).  Please send a cheque payable to SCOTTISH PLACE-NAME SOCIETY to: Professor Carole Hough, English Language, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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The Place-Names of Midlothian

Dr Norman Dixon’s previously inaccessible and still important PhD study of 1947, with Introduction by Simon Taylor outlining more recent approaches to some of the names.  (Midlothian here is the pre-1975 geographical county including Edinburgh and Musselburgh.)

515 pages.  £10, plus £2.50 postage and packing (UK only).  Please send a cheque payable to SCOTTISH PLACE-NAME SOCIETY to: Professor Carole Hough, English Language, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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