SNSBI Twenty-second Glasgow meeting (Pond Hotel, 2013 April 05–08)
This meeting was organised by Carole Hough.
Friday 5 April
- Various: Reports from participants in pre-conference postgraduate workshop
Saturday 6 April
- 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 7 April
- 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
