The new site for the ENGLISH PROJECT's LOCATION LINGO is now up and running, in association with the ORDNANCE SURVEY.
Details of the project are below... GET INVOLVED !
The English Project has teamed up with Ordnance Survey to compile an ‘Alternative Gazetteer’ of Britain. It’s what we call Location Lingo.
Details of the project are below... GET INVOLVED !
The English Project has teamed up with Ordnance Survey to compile an ‘Alternative Gazetteer’ of Britain. It’s what we call Location Lingo.
As from English Language Day, Wednesday 13 October 2010, we are keen to receive your nicknames and petnames for places and landmarks. They will then join our massive List of Location Lingo from all over the country.
What are we looking for?
Location Lingo can cover names for all kinds of locations. For example;
- neighbourhoods,
- towns,
- villages,
- parks
- landmarks in the town or countryside.
Location Lingo can even describe road-junctions or roundabouts on a road or motorway.
We’re open to all kinds of contribution. They can be well-known, popular nicknames or private petnames used amongst a few friends. They can be old or newly-coined. And they could be especially useful for the Emergency Services who are often puzzled when people phone in with reports of incidents using a nickname to describe the location. Our list of Location Lingo will help to solve the problem.
The Rules
To be classified as Location Lingo by the English Project and Ordnance Survey a nickname or petname for a place in Great Britain must:
- must not be an official name or does not appear as a name on the maps in the map viewer
- have been in regular and recognisable use amongst a group of three or more people for at least a month
- have not been devised for this project.
As well as the nickname or petname we are also interested in the story behind the name. Why did a place acquire that nickname? If you know, then tell us.
I will be adding a few places, and will tell you about them in a later post...
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