From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow how maps name, claim, and inflame / [electronic resource] :
Mark Monmonier.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- xiv, 215 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199).
Naming and mapping -- The quest for a national gazetteer -- Purging pejoratives -- Body parts and risque toponyms -- Going native -- Your toponym or mine? -- Erasures -- Inscriptions -- Epilogue : naming rites.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Names, Geographical--Etymology.--United States Names, Geographical--Etymology. Toponymy. English language--Etymology--Names. English language--Obscene words. Words, Obscene.