Origin of English place names

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AI sheds light on the ancient origins of England's place names

An artificial intelligence model has unpicked some of the linguistic influences behind England's place names, which could help us to understand their meaning

www.newscientist.com

Attempting to uncover the ancient origins of English place names has long kept academics and hobbyists busy, with each name often attracting multiple conflicting ideas. Now, artificial intelligence offers a way to analyse the names’ similarities to a host of other European languages, revealing hints about their roots.

Michael Dalvean at the University of Western Australia took a list of 18,799 place names from England and 84,687 from Ireland, Scotland, Wales,…
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Interesting place name...

 

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Shitterton is a hamlet in Bere Regis Dorset, England. It includes a collection of historic thatched buildings dating back to the 18th century and earlier. Its name dates back at least 1000 years and means "farmstead on the stream used as an open sewer".

There's also Shitsville here in Florida. It's close to Palm Beach. It's called Mara Lego or something like that.

 

[joluoto]

According to Wikipedia (that thus must be taken with a grain of salt) Shitterton was called Scatera in the Domesday Book of 1086. The origin of the name is probably the anglosaxon word scite, which means dung, so the meaning of the word has not changed. Theories how it became Shitterton of course exist a plenty, some people think it was originally a stream called the Shitter because it was used as a privy.

Wikipedia entry here: Shitterton

 

[Rumpelstil]

AI sheds light on the ancient origins of England's place names

An artificial intelligence model has unpicked some of the linguistic influences behind England's place names, which could help us to understand their meaning

www.newscientist.com

Attempting to uncover the ancient origins of English place names has long kept academics and hobbyists busy, with each name often attracting multiple conflicting ideas. Now, artificial intelligence offers a way to analyse the names’ similarities to a host of other European languages, revealing hints about their roots.

Michael Dalvean at the University of Western Australia took a list of 18,799 place names from England and 84,687 from Ireland, Scotland, Wales,…
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Interesting place name...

interesting!