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Robert M. Rennick Appalachian Heritage, Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 2000, pp. 21-29 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2000.0038 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435576/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:02 GMT from JHU Libraries Studying Place Names: Some Assumptions and Problems___________ Robert M. Rennick For over thirty years I have been studying the place names of Kentucky. It's not been easy. Here's why. The two obvious components in the study of place names are the place and its name. Students of place names have often assumed things about both of these without fully understanding what they're about. First, what's a name? It's usually a word or group of words ( or some other symbol, even a number) that identifies something and distinguishes it from other things which it may resemble. There may be some obvious connection between the name and what it identifies, but there needn't be. And there's usually no inherent association between the name and its referent, unless they've become so closely identified with each other that one naturally thinks of the referent when he hears or sees the name applied to it. Does every place have a name?
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 2014
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