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Place-nomenclat lire. 



Another peculiarity of our nomenclature is the common shortening 

 of some names to a single syllable with a distinguishing prefix the; 

 thus Welshpool is locally often called '' The Pool," the North Pole 

 Branch is " The Pole/"' the Otnabog is " The Bog." 



213. From the list of words" of unknown origin on this page, 

 Sunbury, and Wickham are to be removed, and Bay du Vin, Yoho, St. 

 Martins are to be added tliereto. 



Other classes of names worthy of careful study are: — (6) Street 

 names of the cities and towns, (7) names of school districts w^hich con- 

 tain a large number of very interesting forms, (8) names of post oJfSces, 

 many of which will become important names of the future. A remark- 

 able, though ver}' trivial series of local names, largely embodying a 

 humorous element, is that of the A\ eirs in Charlotte County. 



214. A very large number of pleasing place-names, taken from our 

 historical past, are available as new names are needed. I have given a 

 full list of these in the Educational Eeview, XV, 204. 



214. The confusion in the spellings of many place-names, here 

 referred to, is now being remedied by the Geographic Board of Canada, 

 organized for the express purpose of standardizing the spellings of place- 

 names in Canada. This Board has published four Eeports in which 

 are foimd many New Brunswick names. Most of the decisions of the 

 Board are admirable, but others, owing to a deficiency of local know- 

 ledge, and perhaps to somewhat too great haste in forwarding this 

 important work, are unfortunately so far out of sympathy with local 

 usage as to make them unacceptable to those most interested in the 

 subject. I have expressed my opinions upon these decisions in an 

 article in the St. John Daily Sun, Dec. 3, 1902, to which a reply was 

 published by the Board in the same paper for Feb. 28, 1903 ; an answer 

 to the Board, to which no reply has as yet appeared, was printed in the 

 earae paper for March 16, 1903, The subject is also discussed, with a list 

 of the preferable forms, in the Educational Eeview, XVI, 189. Feb. 1903. 

 At the present writing, I understand the Board is again to consider 

 these special names in the light of new information about them. In 

 the meantime I have given, in the Dictionary of place-names following, 

 all the forms not already adopted in the Monograph, which seem so 

 good that they ought to stand, omitting mention of the cases still in 

 doubt. 



