Robert Lee Ramsay (
December 14,
1880 -
December 14,
1953), professor of English at the University of Missouri - Columbia from
1907 to
1952. Starting in the mid-
1920s, Ramsay started to develop a dictionary of
Missouri placenames, creating a methodology and overseeing graduate research on the topic. Due to widespread availability of the book,
Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names, Ramsay is the best known authority of the subject in Missouri. His research is used for official citations by the United States Board of Geographical Names. Ramsay was a founding member of the
American Name Society.
External links
- American Name Society
- Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names, 2nd. Edition, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1973 ISBN 0-8262-0586-0
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Toponymy refers to the scientific study of place-names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use and typology. The first part of the word is derived from the Greek topos (τόπος), place; followed by ōnoma
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The American Name Society, founded in 1951, is a learned society "founded...to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad... to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics revealed in names.
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