SNSBI 2008 Edinburgh meeting (Pollock Halls, April 04–07)
The 2008 annual spring conference was held at the University
of Edinburgh and organised by Dr. Ian Fraser & Dr. Doreen Waugh.
There is a report in Nomina 31, 121–123.
Friday April 4
Bill Nicolaisen: On names in literature (read by Carole Hough).
Saturday April 5
Pat McKay: Scots minor names in Ulster.
Veronica Smart: Economic migrants? Continental names in tenth-century England
Guy Puzey: Minority place-names and linguistic identity in Scotland and Norway
Ian Fraser: Place-names in oral tradition
Peter Drummond: Place-name losses and changes
Richard Cox: Issues in developing a chronology for Norse and Gaelic place-names in the Hebrides
Gwyneth Nair and Jennifer Scherr: Especiall vertues: abstract qualities and womens names in England 1540–1850
David Sellar: Rachael, Gormelia, Florence and Forwht: some female forenames
Ellen Bramwell: Naming patterns in a Glasgow Pakistani/Muslim community
Liam Ó hAisibéil: Aspects of research on townland names in Co. Roscommon
Shaun Tyas: The use of medievalism in business names in Britain and Ireland
Peter McNiven: Place-names and the medieval church in Menteith, Perthshire
Hywel Wyn Owen: Dictionary of the place-names of Wales
Ian Fraser: Linlithgow place-names
Coach excursion to Linlithgow Palace, where we were entertained by the Linlithgow Players — the pictures show members of the group (and others) watching the play.