SNSBI Twenty-second Glasgow meeting (Pond Hotel, 2013 April 05–08)
This meeting was organized by Carole Hough.
Friday April 5
- Various: Reports from participants in pre-conference postgraduate workshop
Saturday April 6
- John Baker, Jayne Carroll and David Parsons: The place-names of Shropshire
- Emily Pennifold: Analysing nineteenth-century field-names in the Anglo-Welsh borderland
- Paul Tempan: Bryantang and Bootown: Cumbrian (English) names in East Ulster
- Patrick Hanks and Matthew Hammond: Black's Surnames of Scotland and the FaNUK database
- Aengus Finnegan: Mac Carrghamhna: a vanished Westmeath surname?
- Ellen Bramwell: Personal names and cultural contact: evidence from modern-day Scotland
- Kenneth Fraser: The politics of naming warships
- Doreen Waugh: “Auld Clettin Roe”, “Wha'll Dance wi’ Wattie?” — naming Shetland fiddle tunes
- Shaun Tyas: Some problematic Scottish football club nicknames
- Gilbert Márkus: Colum Cille inimicus Scotorum
- Keith Briggs: Saint's name + stōw in Suffolk (pdf handout)
- short reports: Digital Exposure of English Place-names (Jayne Carroll);
The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain (Eleanor Rye);
Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus (Carole Hough);
Northern Ireland PlaceNames Project (Paul Tempan);
Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (Brendan O'Connor);
SWAP and the Concise Scots Dictionary (Alison Grant)
Sunday April 7
- Peder Gammeltoft: DigDag launched — the end of a project or a new beginning for Danish onomastics?
- Alan James: Brittonic trev in the place-names of south-west Scotland
- Thomas Clancy: Clusters, contexts and contrasts: place-names in Ayrshire
- coach excursion to Ayrshire through its multilayered toponymy: to Alloway (via Ayr) and the Robert Burns Museum via Maybole, Kirkoswald, Turnberry and the Electric brae
- John Freeman: Pyon, Herefordshire — a pre-English hill-name?
- Eila Williamson: Out and about with STIT: exchanging knowledge of Scotland's place-names
photos
2013-04-07: Simon Taylor in the coach to Alloway, and a group of hikers at Alloway.