Exploration #24 | Journey in Place | Place-Language

Jun 14, 2024

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In Exploration #14 we looked at place-names. This week I’d like to think about nouns of place.

Place-nouns = specific words ascribed to particular topographical features in a landscape.

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Scholars, I plead with you

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Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?

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—Norman MacCaig

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