The Most Extreme Place Names | Otherwords

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Take the PBS Digital Studios Audience Survey: https://to.pbs.org/pbssurvey2023h Place names, known as "toponyms" do more than just help us know where we're supposed to meet up. They often provide clues that can tell you a lot about a location: its geography, history and the people who lived there. Otherwords is a PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this quintessential human trait of language and finds the fascinating, thought-provoking, and funny stories behind the words and sounds we take for granted. Incorporating the fields of biology, history, cultural studies, literature, and more, linguistics has something for everyone and offers a unique perspective on what it means to be human. sources: Host: Erica Brozovsky, Ph.D. Creator/Director: Andrew Matthews & Katie Graham Writer: Erica Brozovsky, Ph.D. Producer: Katie Graham Editor/Animation: Andrew Matthews Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Fact Checker: Yvonne McGreevy Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell Stock Images from Shutterstock Music from APM Music Otherwords is produced by Spotzen for PBS. © 2023 PBS. All rights reserved. sources: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/oldest-place-name-0014630 https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/297-2020 https://www.geographyrealm.com/longest-shortest-geographical-names-world/ https://www.history.com/news/eight-surprising-facts-about-alexander-the-great https://unstats.un.org/unsd/ungegn/nna/nna-committees/ https://historyofmassachusetts.org/how-boston-lost-its-hills/ https://www.bostonbackbay.com/about-back-bay/history/ https://landgeist.com/2023/02/04/most-common-place-names-in-europe/ https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-most-common-citytown-name-united-states https://www.williamcronon.net/courses/469/handouts/469-names-on-the-land.html https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/origins-of-english-place-names/

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