Social Sciences and History / Unit 11 SSH 1025 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Toponymy and Dialect
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The idea
Toponymy is the study of place names, which reveal a place's significance, landscape, honored people, and distant references. Dialects of American English have changed with settlement histories and political events the anchor lists: the Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican-American War, annexations.
In practice
Twenty fifteen Census data on language diversity.
Where people slip
Mapping web-language use is unattainable now, the anchor admits.
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