ISBN: 9781130156423

RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 78 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. … More...

RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 78 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: . . . Gazetteer. Every one seems to have a way of spelling of his own. Ramnagar is spelt about eleven different ways in Thorntons Gazetteer, and the prefix Fateh is spelt eleven ways, all wrong; garh is spelt ghur in one line, gurh in another, and gur in a third; pur is spelt-poor, pore, pour, par, pora, and c. A few months ago I met with Peenee Put in a newspaper, and could only guess that Panipat was meant. Kanhpur is the city of Krishna, --in one author it is Cunpoor, in another Caunpoor, and in Orme Cawnpore, --apparently intended for Khanpur--a Musalman, --in place of a Hindu name, --and scores of instances of the same kind, whereby the etymology is completely disguised, by the mis-spelling, might be adduced by one acquainted with the country. From this multiplicity of spellings, certain forms become for a while fashionable, and then give place to others: thus, thirty years ago, our best maps had Cashmeer, Curachee, Baroche, Boglipour, Nassuck, Mow, Churapoonjie, Butnageeree, Thencaicshee, Paulytanna, and c. All these names are now altered, more or less, most of them for the better. But a spirit of reform is getting abroad in this matter, and if slowly, is yet surely working its way. The last edition of Elphinstones History, by my friend Professor E. B. Cowell, has greatly improved the spellings, and the students of that excellent work may be expected to some extent to adopt the orthography they will there become familiar with. Dr. Keith Johnstone in his Royal Atlas has also adopted a large number of. improved spellings, and other authors are following in the same track: even in some of our school-books reform is visible. The difficulty Geographers find, however, is to discover, among the multiplicity of disguised forms, w. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub.com<

ISBN: 1130156427

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2012, ISBN: 9781130156423

General Books LLC , Mar-2012. softcover. New. pp. 78, General Books LLC