| The City of Chicago is an example of the prepositional place-name, but in common use the preposition and the generic are dropped. |
| A person will listen to the place-name spoken and then phonetically render the place-name in his or her own language, creating at best a close approximation. |
| There is an expanded place-name index with more than 150,000 entries, and separate undersea, Moon, and Mars features. |
| These are looked up in a gazetteer, a place-name dictionary with over 10m entries, which knows, for example, that the Statue of Liberty is in New York. |
| The reply is that the Old English scop may not have regarded it as a place-name. |
| The Afrikaans language shares many place-name elements with Dutch, the European language from which it derives. |
