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'From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names going - now described and explained in one humorous and fascinating book. ...'
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Buggered If I Know Where I Am: the Stories behind Australia’s Weird and Wonderful Place Names
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 24 October 2016;
— Review of Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else 2016 single work prose'Why is it that despite how much and how often we use toponyms (place names) linguists, geographers, cartographers, and historians know so little about how they actually work?'
'Why is it that place names are less prone to change than other aspects of language like accents and pronunciations? And how is it that regardless of how well furnished a map or smartphone may be with place names and directions, we still bloody well get lost? And why are so many Australian places named after knobs? ...'
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Buggered If I Know Where I Am: the Stories behind Australia’s Weird and Wonderful Place Names
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 24 October 2016;
— Review of Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else 2016 single work prose'Why is it that despite how much and how often we use toponyms (place names) linguists, geographers, cartographers, and historians know so little about how they actually work?'
'Why is it that place names are less prone to change than other aspects of language like accents and pronunciations? And how is it that regardless of how well furnished a map or smartphone may be with place names and directions, we still bloody well get lost? And why are so many Australian places named after knobs? ...'
