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Title From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow : how maps name, claim, and inflame / Mark Monmonier.
Author Monmonier, Mark S.
Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  910.014 MON    Check Shelves
Description xiv, 215 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199) and index.
Contents Naming and mapping -- The quest for a national gazetteer -- Purging pejoratives -- Body parts and risqué toponyms -- Going native -- Your toponym or mine? -- Erasures -- Inscriptions -- Epilogue : naming rites.
Subject Names, Geographical -- United States -- Etymology.
Names, Geographical -- Etymology.
Toponymy.
English language -- Etymology -- Names.
English language -- Obscene words.
Words, Obscene.
ISBN 0226534650 : $25.00