Excerpt from Names of Places in a Transferred Sense in English The title of this volume shows that the subject here treated belongs to that branch of philology which is called sematology; but such a subject has also great importance from the point of view of word-formation. Moreover, I think the phenomenon here dealt with is of such a nature that it will throw light upon several points, not only such as concern the English language and language in general but also such as illustrate the relations which subsist between language and human civilization. The transition of place-names to common nouns is a thing which has been incidentally mentioned in several philological works, but it has never before been dealt with methodically. The most extensive treatment of the question is to be found in a chapter named Words derived from Places by isaac taylor in his book Words and Pla ces; but this treatment is unsystematic and incomplete, and besides it contains several errors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.