John Freeman wrote:
> Perhaps we should not prejudge it, but Oliver Padel
> reported last week at the English Place-Name Society
> Editors' meeting that he was preparing a "semi-popular"
> dictionary of Cornish place-names for publication by the
> Society, so some of us will no doubt be content to wait
> for that.
That's splendid news. I do hope that "semi-popular" isn't muddying the
waters - what is required is a volume in the so-called "Popular" series like
the excellent Lincoln, Durham and Leicestershire & Rutland volumes. I do
hope that the editors have taken on board my re-iterated plea that the
coverage should be the names on the 1:50,000 maps. (I believe that the
Leicestershire & Rutland volume achieves this, and it shouldn't be too much
of a problem given the existence of the 1:50,000 gazetteer.)
John Briggs
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